By Mc Martin
Drawing jointly quite a number major names within the box of up to date literature and important conception, this selection of essays offers with the complete diversity of Spark's literary output. It has a specific emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, post-colonial, and deconstructive examining concepts. It concludes with a brand new interview with Muriel Spark
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Narcissus’ tragedy, she writes, does not stem from his realization that he is in love with an image but from his discovery that the image can desert him. 8 This recalls the stories of 40 Narcissism and Idealization Annabel and Frederick. What prompts Frederick’s desertion of Annabel is not his realization that she will never fulfill his ideal but his fear that she cannot be trusted. Frederick’s increasing financial dependence on Annabel finally forces him to acknowledge that ‘at any moment she could change her mind.
It is noteworthy that immediately after hearing of her husband’s suicide Annabel imagines she is taking part in a film. Her public and private worlds have become one. She manages the remainder of her affairs as if they are a film, albeit one she is now in control of. 9 Interestingly, the script she is engaged in learning provides welcome relief from these public performances. Annabel draws on her former typecasting as a ‘frail, small, slip of a thing’ to serve her in this guise, a further indication of the merging of her public and private selves (I, p.
It is even possible to view 42 Narcissism and Idealization Frederick’s suicide in this light, since his strategy indicates that it is directed at Annabel in a final effort to possess her. Kristeva’s analysis in Tales of Love can be productively linked in terms of a reading of The Public Image to the work of two further writers on narcissism – Christopher Lasch and Joel Kovel. 11 For Lasch, mass communications and globalization have resulted in a hostile and incomprehensible environment in which identity and meaning are determined by market forces, and he suggests that one of the ways the individual endeavours to deal with this threatening social order is to block it out.
