The Psychosomatic Text: Re-reading Psychoanalysis and Semiotics in Como en la guerra, or, The Sister(s) of Oedipus

• Geoffrey Kantaris ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cambridge

     University of Cambridge

     Cambridge District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Otoño 2012), págs. 226-248
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  • This chapter works through the formal and philosophical tension embedded in Luisa Valenzuela’s under-explored novel, Como en la guerra. Skillfully picking up on themes of Sophocles’ Antigone in Como en la guerra, Kantaris uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to address the recurring analogy of the fatherless child. This useful revisit to the Oedipal paradigm, for the Generation of ’72 qua the exilic experience, adds to the formal and sociological analysis of Valenzuela’s navigation of the post-Boom publishing marketplace. Always already “half-buried,” this is a group that seeks epistemological anchors while the in-rush of novel global signifiers reifies national and regional experience.