"The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": Marvell's Ovidian Study in Hysteria

Gottlieb, Sidney

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“…The voice of the nymph in Marvell's poem "The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Faun" is hysterical, which calls to mind a cluster of characteristics useful in reading this poem (Gottlieb, 1999). The term hysteria involves linguistic and somatic disruptions that are at once strategies of evasion and of confrontation, it is also at least etymologically related to the feminine, and although it is by no means an Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies, Vol.…”

Section: The Psychoanalytic Formation Of Gender Identitymentioning

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Thinking With Glands – Jouissance of Women's Writing

Jeftić

2012

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This article seeks to explore the area of women's writing as to provide additional material for a discussion on the psychoanalytic perspective of gender development and the importance it has in the formation of female identity. With the attempt to review old debates on the existence of phallic and ovarian art, this article will contribute to it by providing a comparative study of Freudian and Lacanian theories of gender development. Oedipus myth and Freud's theories based on the phallus will be confronted with Lacan's theories. The main innovation of this article compared to the previous achievements in this field is the introduction of Lacan's term jouissance and its connection to female identity and the understandings of the childbirth metaphor. Jouissance represents surplus of enjoyment that can be explained through the resistance to prohibition, while the childbirth metaphor illustrates how gender creates and forms inscriptions of rules in female discourse. What can be concluded is that the significant number of female authors follow three phases: she tries to imitate her masculine colleagues, then she experiences the great feeling of resistance, and at the end she creates her own discourse, born through the processes of obedience and rebellion. While male writers can only create, women are able to both create and procreate. The childbirth metaphor has also served for centuries as a linguistic reunion of what culture and patriarchal literary tradition have sundered. By linking missing parts together, this article serves as a metaphor for one psychoanalitic movement towards jouissance of women's writing.

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“…4, No. 1, (2011) © Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences [64] exclusively female response, it lends itself to a critical examination of the contingent historical positioning of women (Gottlieb, 1999).…”

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Thinking With Glands – Jouissance of Women's Writing

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2012

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Marvell's Dialogized Nymph

Jaeckle¹

2003

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In "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun," Andrew Marvell inserts multiple social languages into the traditional literary language of a complaining nymph and thereby tests that language in the face of outside linguistic pressures. The languages of contemporary militarism, British law, quasi-Christian theology, Canticles, and Marvell's own poetic practice enter the poem to reveal the instability and vulnerability of traditional literary languages in a period of rapid social change and extreme heteroglossia. By dialogizing the Nymph's language of complaint, then, Marvell refracts the social disorder of his time.

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Andrew Marvell's Ovidian Consolations

Laam¹

2013

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Although Andrew Marvell's debt to Ovid has been widely acknowledged, the Amores has gone virtually unnoticed in discussions of Marvell's Ovidianism. This article examines the influence of Ovid's funeral elegies ( Amores 2.6 and 3.9) on Marvell's three funeral elegies: "An Elegy Upon the Death of My Lord Francis Villiers," "Upon the Death of Lord Hastings," and "A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness the Lord Protector." Specifically, it examines how Marvell enlists Ovidian irony and wit to comment on the consolatory pretensions of elegy and, more broadly, on the events and politics of the English Civil War and Commonwealth. In the Amores Ovid actively exposes the formal artifice through which tropes of consolation are constructed. Marvell's elegies follow much the same pattern. He is patently concerned with elegy's unique capacity to draw comfort from the experience of mourning and loss, but like Ovid, he also understands that the figurative compensations and traumatic fixations that derive from this experience are not easy to separate.

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"The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": Marvell's Ovidian Study in Hysteria

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Thinking With Glands – Jouissance of Women's Writing

Thinking With Glands – Jouissance of Women's Writing

Marvell's Dialogized Nymph

Andrew Marvell's Ovidian Consolations

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