Mutuality and One-Sidedness in Kjell Askildsen's the Dogs of Thessaloniki
The Psychology of Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129743 |
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| Authors | Eeva Ikonen (a Karsikkotie 10, 82900 , Ilomantsi , Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-22 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.2009.10592637 |
| OpenAlex | W1969210153 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The aim of this paper is to bring to the fore how a talented writer is able to describe everyday human relationships in a way that makes visible their most central, underlying dynamics. After reviewing some of the psychoanalytic literature, the author presents a collection of short stories by the Norwegian author, Kjell Askildsen. These works illustrate how the fear of incest, sado-masochistic, exhibitionistic, and addictive defenses can play the rôle of “directors” of human dramas. Askildsen, with relentless accuracy, decribes a longing for reciprocity and defences against it. In such a conflict, reciprocity is felt dangerous and only momentarily fulfilled, and defences are necessary
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Norwegian · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Sociology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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