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Journeys in my antonia3/12/2024 ![]() ![]() Margaret Homans remarks that Western metaphysics is founded on the myth Of preoedipal wholeness into what Jacques Lacan calls the Law of theįather, the world of loss and time that is also the world of culture. This single paradigm, in which the child falls from an imaginary state My essay explores the multiple presentations of InĮver-widening arcs, Jim's narrative traces and retraces what isįundamentally one loss, repeated and reinscribed: the loss of preoedipalįusion with the mother. Widening breach, of his relationship with Ántonia. Orphanhood, then repeated in his experiences of nature, and finallyĭeveloped in the long, slow renunciation and forfeiture, the gradually The movement from possession to loss, from union to separation, is theĭeep and central pattern of Jim Burden's experience in My Ántonia.
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