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Mirror, Mirror: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation Of Olive Schreiner’S New Woman, Angela Chui, Arcadia University
Mirror, Mirror: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation Of Olive Schreiner’S New Woman, Angela Chui, Arcadia University
The Compass
Olive Schreiner situates The Story of an African Farm in a fractured world comprised of drought-stricken earth, splintering religion, inaccessible education, and shattered familial units. Within an existentialist backdrop, Schreiner immediately foregrounds her protagonist’s pursuit of meaningfulness through a concept of universal interconnectedness. Even as a child, Lyndall keenly perceives the inherent flaws of the broken society in which she lives; and her childhood experiences on the farmstead define her revolutionary identity as the Victorian New Woman. Lyndall’s physical and intellectual maturation can be examined through the psychoanalytical lens of Jacques Lacan’s pivotal essay, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of …
The Compass, Issue 3, Arcadia University Honors Program
The Compass, Issue 3, Arcadia University Honors Program
The Compass
Issue 3 of The Compass, a scholarly journal edited and produced by students in the Arcadia University Honors Program.