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A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO BECKETT'S "FIRST LOVE"

A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO BECKETT'S "FIRST LOVE" In "First Love", a highly intelligent, witty narrator looks back to a highly repressive world – his own inner world – where he behaves as a child, a baby, now and then even as a foetus. This article wants to show how "First Love" has been influenced, from the first line to the last, by the author's experiences of psychoanalysis. The theories of Wilfred Bion, who was Beckett's analyst for some years, seem to be the watermark of important parts of this text, which could be named a 'metapsychological story'. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui Brill

A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO BECKETT'S "FIRST LOVE"

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , Volume 7 (1): 419 – Dec 8, 1998

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Copyright 1998 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-3131
eISSN
1875-7405
DOI
10.1163/18757405-90000111
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Abstract

In "First Love", a highly intelligent, witty narrator looks back to a highly repressive world – his own inner world – where he behaves as a child, a baby, now and then even as a foetus. This article wants to show how "First Love" has been influenced, from the first line to the last, by the author's experiences of psychoanalysis. The theories of Wilfred Bion, who was Beckett's analyst for some years, seem to be the watermark of important parts of this text, which could be named a 'metapsychological story'.

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Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'huiBrill

Published: Dec 8, 1998

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