MUTUALITY AND ONE-SIDEDNESS IN KJELL ASKILDSEN'S THE DOGS OF THESSALONIKI: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE |
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Authors: | Eeva Ikonen |
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Institution: | Karsikkotie 10, 82900 , Ilomantsi , Finland |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to bring to the fore how a talented writer is able to describe everyday human relationships in a way that makes visible their most central, underlying dynamics. After reviewing some of the psychoanalytic literature, the author presents a collection of short stories by the Norwegian author, Kjell Askildsen. These works illustrate how the fear of incest, sado-masochistic, exhibitionistic, and addictive defenses can play the rôle of “directors” of human dramas. Askildsen, with relentless accuracy, decribes a longing for reciprocity and defences against it. In such a conflict, reciprocity is felt dangerous and only momentarily fulfilled, and defences are necessary. |
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Keywords: | one-sidedness mutuality sado-masochism phallicism family relationships |
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