Abstract

LIMA, Eliete Gusmão Gonçalves. The lost daughters: fiction or non-fiction. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2023, n.60, pp.115-126.  Epub Feb 07, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n60a12.

In this paper, the author traces an intersection between Melanie Klein and the character Leda in Elena Ferrantes The Lost Daughter (2016). To this end, the paper departs from the assumption that literature and psychoanalysis share a common trait -the speech -, through which individuals can tell their symptoms. Notwithstanding the different periods in which Melanie Klein and Leda lived, the paper highlights aspects of Kleins life that are similar to the idealizations, defenses and repressions experienced and elaborated by Ferrantes character. The argument in this paper expects to contribute to the concept that the external reality is understood through our own internal psyche needs. In this regard, the psychoanalysis contributes both to explain the obscure layers of the literary narrative and to clarify the drivers of Melanie Kleins psyche needs.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Literature; Melanie Klein.

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