Psychosis and Capture: Lacanian Individuation in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
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Falling Man, Don DeLillo, Individuation, Jacques Lacan, September 11Abstract
This essay explores mechanisms of individuation in Don Delillo’s Falling Man“, placing it in conversation with Jacques Lacan’s ideas of ego-formation. It argues that the difference in Falling Man“’s two protagonists’ individuations holds the key to understanding Falling Man“’s critique of the post-9/11 subject condition.Downloads
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“Psychosis and Capture: Lacanian Individuation in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Nov. 2015, https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.243.
