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The Unconscious and Language: Formation of Subjectivity in Jorge Luis Borges’s “El etnógrafo”

Panel: 
Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) I: Autores canónicos
Abstract: 

This paper argues that the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan (especially his developmental triad of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real) are embodied in the figure of Fred Murdock, protagonist of Borges’s story “El etnógrafo.”

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Juan M.
Last Name: 
Godoy
Institution: 
San Diego State University