A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF A BRITISH FEMALE PROTAGONIST UNDER THE LENS OF LACANIAN CONCEPTS

Anita brookner and loneliness are intermingled; she has had a lonely life both in her early life and after her retirement. Her protagonists follow an inevitable movement toward more loneliness and loneliness may lead to despair. Being alone brookner rethinks any issue and write mostly about the contemporary life, women's destiny, and above all aging. The basis of human psychological characteristics remains hidden deep within the unconscious mind but they are interpretable through psychoanalytic theories. Otherness fascinates brookner, so lacan and his theories come to the mind automatically. The main characteristics of her characters and the detailed process of becoming subjects have many identical points. This study aims to investigate hotel du lac's central character, edith hope, and her parents from lacanian perspective. the basic components underlying his evolution and subjectivization will be explored in detail from lacanian perspective.