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Dora, Doralina: The Sexual Configuration of Discourse

1991; CIESPAL; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/29740318

2327-4247

Joanna Courteau,

Narrative Theory and Analysis

transforms the traditional Freudian Triad, with its axes constituted by the figures of mother father-daughter, into the Lacanian Triad of the narrative discourse with axes constituted by historical, symbolic and imaginative levels of the narrative. This transformation is achieved through the use of three basic structuring principles used in psychoanalysis which, in the Lacanian interpretration, may also be applied to the narrative discourse. These principles are aphanisis, antonomasis and mirror reflection. Each of these principles provides an outline for the borders between narrative levels. By abolishing the historical level the process of aphanisis allows this level to be recreated on the symbolic level; by effecting name substitution through metonymy and metaphor antonomasis releases the symbolic level into the imaginary; and the mirror reflection which operates on the imaginary level brings it back into contact with the historical level, which it reflects, not without accentuating, however, the arbitrariness of this reflection.