- Title
- Love Goddess
- Author/Creator
- Samuel B. Girgus
- Publication Details
- Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology, pp.180-223
- Annotation
- Psychoanalytic study of the alienation, fragmentation, and disillusionment permeating the modern age through an examination of Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Reads the former as a doomed search for love and psychic wholeness, arguing that Jake s wound serves as an emblem of how desire and dependence certify the fragility and weakness of the human condition. Discusses Jake, Brett, and Cohn s failure to cope in a modern world where desire equals defeat and destruction. Girgus closes with an exploration of the numerous forces threatening Frederic and Catherine s relationship, including their instinctual desire to destroy, an awareness of and fear of death, and mutual dependence on each other leading to vulnerability and division.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131716703691
Book chapter
Love Goddess
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology, pp.180-223
1990
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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