The Circle of Melancholia. Narrative and Symbolic Strategies of Psychological Maturation in Esther Tusquets’ Varada tras el último naufragio (1980)
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Esther Tusquets, Varada tras el último naufragio, melancholia, psychoanalysis, circleAbstract
This essay explores the dynamics of psychological maturation developed in Varada tras el último naufragio, a novel published by Barcelonian writer Esther Tusquets in 1980, as a process that departs from a trauma and reaches a specific positive solution through a plot tacitly inspired in classic psychoanalytical discourse. The protagonist Elia's melancholia is resolved through a dialectic that follows a circular pattern, which implies a return to the past in order to establish a solid identity basis to enable her to successfully reincorporate herself into the world and assertively face the future.
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