- Title
- The Fantasies of Omnipotence and Powerlessness: Commemoration in Hemingway s "Fathers and Sons"
- Author/Creator
- Erik Nakjavani
- Publication Details
- Up in Michigan Perspectives, pp.91-101
- Annotation
- Psychoanalytic examination focused on the transformative powers of memory and recollection, analyzing Nick Adams s relationship with his father. Nakjavani argues that Nick s vision of his father as a hunter is one of omnipotence, while his vision of him as a sexual being is one of powerlessness, simultaneously promoting for Nick the violence that hunting represents and spurring his desire to seek his own omnipotence sexually.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136400503691
Book chapter
The Fantasies of Omnipotence and Powerlessness: Commemoration in Hemingway s "Fathers and Sons"
Up in Michigan Perspectives, pp.91-101
1995
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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