A number instead of a proper name
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.15631Keywords:
proper name, Homo Sacer, concentration camp, identification, traceAbstract
This article comes from the approaches of Giorgio Agamben on the concentration camps, the Homo Sacer and the Bare Life, questioning from psychoanalysis what is happening with the proper name in the novel Fatelessness by the Jewish writer Imre Kertész, especially for its main character. The objective of this paper is to analyze, from the elements that this literary work offers, how people are divested of all their identifying references, being deprived of their objects, their hair, their proper name, and, finally, their desire to live. In Agamben's terms, this corresponds to the reduction of the human being to the status of Bare Life, and according to Lacan, to a condition of object, cancelling their registration in the Other.
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