Negotiating the Heroic Paternal Ideal: Historical Fiction as Transference in Hemingway s For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Pamela A. Boker

Literature and Psychology, Vol.41(1-2), pp.85-112

1995

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Title: Negotiating the Heroic Paternal Ideal: Historical Fiction as Transference in Hemingway s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Author/Creator: Pamela A. Boker
Publication Details: Literature and Psychology, Vol.41(1-2), pp.85-112
Annotation: Psychoanalytic reading of Robert Jordan s separation of the masculine and feminine. Finds echoes of both Jordan s and Hemingway s inverted parental figures in Jordan s relationships with Pilar, Pablo, and Maria. Concludes that Jordan s death is both literally and symbolically a consequence of his adolescent disillusionment in the heroic, paternal ego ideal, which re-awakens in him the threat of castration by the real, flawed, and threatening father.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132263703691