Abstract:Alienation and loss appear as a pivotal theme in the majority of Sam Shepard"s family plays. This study intends to give a Lacanian reading of Sam Shepard"s Buried Child. Drawing primarily on Lacan"s linguistic theory of psychoanalysis, as well as his definition of psychosis, this study shows how Tilden"s alienation in the play stems from the foreclosure of the paternal metaphor in the symbolic registry of the psyche which, consequently, causes a malfunction in the process of oedipalization by leaving a hole in… Show more
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