{"title":"Olga Tokarczuk's Protagonist in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead as a High-Functioning Autistic Woman","authors":"Sagit Blumrosen-Sela","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.0007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper sheds light on the psychology of the protagonist of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, as a high-functioning autistic. The prism of autism explains the intricacies of this extraordinary character, providing a coherent framework for understanding her and the characteristics of the narrative itself, as it is narrated by the protagonist. At the same time, the novel provides us with an extraordinary inner portrait of an autistic psyche that may enrich our understanding of the autistic consciousness.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN IMAGO","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.0007","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The paper sheds light on the psychology of the protagonist of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, as a high-functioning autistic. The prism of autism explains the intricacies of this extraordinary character, providing a coherent framework for understanding her and the characteristics of the narrative itself, as it is narrated by the protagonist. At the same time, the novel provides us with an extraordinary inner portrait of an autistic psyche that may enrich our understanding of the autistic consciousness.
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Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, AMERICAN IMAGO is the preeminent scholarly journal of psychoanalysis. Appearing quarterly, AMERICAN IMAGO publishes innovative articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis as well as on the reciprocal relations between psychoanalysis and the broad range of disciplines that constitute the human sciences. Since 2001, the journal has been edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, who has made each issue a "special issue" and introduced a topical book review section, with a guest editor for every Fall issue.