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The latino and his culture: Chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez

The latino and his culture: Chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 4, 1994 THE LATINO AND HIS CULTURE: CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Mario Rendon Works of art have traditionally been considered sources of insight for psychoanalysis. Through them not only the artist but his culture can be known. By means of a sort of regression that takes place in the service of the ego (Kris, 1934; Hartmann, 1939), the artist gets in touch with infantile memories and fills the gaps with his imagination. This in turn serves as a screen for the artist's interlocutor (the reader here) who mirrors the artist's regression and thus shares in the creative act. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud (1939) placed traditions as the group equivalent of individual infan- tile memories, thus trying to bridge the gap between the individual and the group's unconscious. The novel that is the object of this paper could be said to be parochial in that it all takes place in a remote Caribbean town. However, the structure of the novel has a universal theme as we will see: by means of letter writing, almost like a self-analysis, the protagonist is able to transcend servitude and to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

The latino and his culture: Chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 54 (4): 14 – Dec 1, 1994

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1994 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF02741942
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 4, 1994 THE LATINO AND HIS CULTURE: CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Mario Rendon Works of art have traditionally been considered sources of insight for psychoanalysis. Through them not only the artist but his culture can be known. By means of a sort of regression that takes place in the service of the ego (Kris, 1934; Hartmann, 1939), the artist gets in touch with infantile memories and fills the gaps with his imagination. This in turn serves as a screen for the artist's interlocutor (the reader here) who mirrors the artist's regression and thus shares in the creative act. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud (1939) placed traditions as the group equivalent of individual infan- tile memories, thus trying to bridge the gap between the individual and the group's unconscious. The novel that is the object of this paper could be said to be parochial in that it all takes place in a remote Caribbean town. However, the structure of the novel has a universal theme as we will see: by means of letter writing, almost like a self-analysis, the protagonist is able to transcend servitude and to

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1994

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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