Speaking with the Dead: The Sick Chick and the Psychic Crypt in Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2022-0004

Catherine Macmillan

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Abstract

Abstract This paper explores Gail Honeyman’s 2017 novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine from the perspective of Abraham and Torok’s concept of the psychic crypt. On one level the protagonist Eleanor, a thirty-year-old urban single woman searching for love, resembles a chick-lit heroine; however, Eleanor is deeply lonely, apparently autistic, suicidal and a survivor of childhood abuse and trauma. The paper argues that Eleanor’s difficulties can be understood as the consequences of encryptment which, in Abraham and Torok’s terms, is a disease of mourning where the dead loved one is incorporated rather than introjected into the psyche.

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与死者对话:盖尔·霍尼曼的《埃莉诺·奥列芬特》中的病鸡和灵穴完全没问题

摘要本文从亚伯拉罕和托罗克的心灵地穴概念出发，探讨盖尔·霍尼曼2017年的小说《埃莉诺·奥列芬特完全好》。在一个层面上，主人公埃莉诺，一个寻找爱情的30岁城市单身女性，就像一个小鸡文学的女主角;然而，埃莉诺非常孤独，明显患有自闭症，有自杀倾向，是童年虐待和创伤的幸存者。论文认为，埃莉诺的困境可以理解为加密的后果，用亚伯拉罕和托罗克的话说，这是一种哀悼的疾病，死去的亲人被纳入其中，而不是内化到精神中。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

0.30

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0.00%

发文量

157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.