Freud considered psychoanalysis to be “first and foremost an art of interpreting” (Freud, 1961a, p. 12). In this paper, our aim is to apply this art of interpreting to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in order to gain new insights into the novel. Gatsby is torn apart by the tension between the present and the past: […]
“Trauma” is one of those words about whose meaning there is no consensus; or, to use a Lacanian term, it functions as a point de capiton—that is to say, a word that everyone uses, yet it has no fixed meaning on which everyone agrees—and the constant usage of the word generates the illusion that everyone […]
