Tiempo, incorporeidad e irrealidad en Mi alma en China, de Anna Kavan

David Jiménez Arenas

doi:10.17533/udea.affs.v14n27a12

Time, disembodiment, and unreality in Anna Kavan’s My soul in China

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David Jiménez Arenas University of Boyacá https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0455-1841

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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.v14n27a12

Keywords:

time, language, unreality, disembodiment

Abstract

This paper inquires into time, unreality, and disembodiment. These topics are tackled in Anna Kavan's work –a twentieth-century English writer–, whose novels and tales have elements for a psychoanalytic approach of such topics. It is found out that, in the author's work, they appear in relation to the limit of the symbolic and its insufficiency. In this sense, they appear as a silent enigma for the subject since they exceed the field of language.

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Author Biography

David Jiménez Arenas, University of Boyacá

Psychologist, Master in Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity and Culture from the National University of Colombia. Professor at the University of Boyacá, Sogamoso, Colombia.

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Published

2017-07-01

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Jiménez Arenas, D. (2017). Time, disembodiment, and unreality in Anna Kavan’s My soul in China. Affectio Societatis, 14(27), 238–252. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.v14n27a12

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Vol. 14 No. 27 (2017): Revista Affectio Societatis

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