CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Tsopurashvili, Salome |
|---|---|
| Title | The traditional image of the Georgian Phallic mother and her crisis in contemporary women writers' fiction |
| Summary | In my thesis I will try illustrate that the Georgian unconsciousness as such is leaded by the image of powerful mother on the level of representations, and lacks the image of father. Consequently my argument is that if we discuss it in psychoanalytic terms, the Georgian unconsciousness remains in dyadic Imaginary and subsists under the power of the Phallic Mother. In my thesis, first I will expose the basics of the psychoanalytical theory, then according to it I will examine the representations of the Phallic mother in the traditional narrative and at last, I will discuss e several short stories of contemporary Georgian women writers. In my analysis of these stories I will reveal the crisis of the ancient phallic mother who has lost her traditionally assumed functions and the internal conflict in mother – daughter relationships which were silenced in Georgian literature up to this point. |
| Supervisor | Sophie Howlett |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/tsopurashvili_salome.pdf |
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