“Looks like a small boy”
Kaltenbeck, Franz
“Looks like a small boy” - 2020.
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The child is not only the center of expectations or the narcissistic support of his parents, a “revenant” who allows them to reach for immortality. For the major playwrights, the child is also the one who discloses fate (Shakespeare’s Macbeth), the messenger of a missed encounter (Beckett’s Waiting for Godot), or the foreclosed signifier of life (Beckett’s Endgame). In brute reality, he can also be the victim of a murder, overlooked by the whole of society. We devote our paper to these fictitious and yet very real functions of the child, functions that are too often overlooked by psychoanalysis.
“Looks like a small boy” - 2020.
51
The child is not only the center of expectations or the narcissistic support of his parents, a “revenant” who allows them to reach for immortality. For the major playwrights, the child is also the one who discloses fate (Shakespeare’s Macbeth), the messenger of a missed encounter (Beckett’s Waiting for Godot), or the foreclosed signifier of life (Beckett’s Endgame). In brute reality, he can also be the victim of a murder, overlooked by the whole of society. We devote our paper to these fictitious and yet very real functions of the child, functions that are too often overlooked by psychoanalysis.
Réseaux sociaux