“An Animated Image of Death” The Image of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Alkemie Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie
2022 – 2, n° 30. L'image - Author: Russo Previtali (Alberto)
- Pages: 81 to 92
- Journal: Alkemie
The essay proposes a critical reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness through the impossible representation of the image of Kurtz. This reconstruction allows to consider the wilderness as a name of the Freudian Thing and the character of Kurtz as the incarnation of Marlow’s phantasmatic object.
- CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
- ISBN: 978-2-406-14536-3
- EAN: 9782406145363
- ISSN: 2286-136X
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14536-3.p.0081
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 01-18-2023
- Periodicity: Biannual
- Language: French
- Keyword: wilderness, lacanian real, unrepresentability, freudian Thing, phantasmatic object.
