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Nothing Left but the Core of Murmurs? : Attacks on Linking as Communication in Beckett’s The Unnamable

Literary studies have usually interpreted Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable (1959) to reflect an area void of meaning and inaccessible to representation. The present article, by contrast, argues that Beckett experientially communicates archaic psychic reality where certain contents develop in an interpersonal relationship. The article offers psychoanalytical close readings of a few key passages in the text, where the function that is integrated in the narrative voice and actively destroys connections manifests itself on different textual levels. Using the psychoanalyst Avner Bergstein’s interpretation of Wilfred Bion’s concept, “attacks on linking”, as a paradoxical form of communication, the …

Transformative words: writing otherness and identities

Juhani Ihanus is a Finnish pioneer of biblio/poetry therapy in Europe. His new insightful and broad-minded work Transformative words: Writing otherness and identities depicts literature, biblio/poe...

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