Abstract

GUZMAN, Mario Orozco. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2009, vol.9, n.2, pp. 369-395. ISSN 1518-6148.

This article exposes a reading of the imaginary order involved in the ghost of the shadow and its symbolic and real implications as it is captured in three legendary texts of terror. It circumscribes certain problematic relation of the subject with the other, the desire, the word, the body and jouissance. In this scaffolding which sharpens the commentary as method three moments are highlighted. The first moment gives an account of the imaginary phenomenology of the shadow in correlation with the ego's projective extension and with a series of boys' and girls' testimonies - gathered through a clinical survey - in respect of their shadows. These testimonies postulate a possible unconscious inscription of the body image (Dolto). In a second moment, under the Freudian discourse prism regarding the disastrous of the melancholic drama, the shadow's image of the lost object devours the subject's desire. The third moment traces the travel across the literary texts which situate the ghostly presence of the shadow as pivotal of anguish, inhibition and devastation.

Keywords : Body Image; Jealousy; Dead Father; Incestuous Feeling; Mourning.

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