PEP | Article - Psychoanalytic Review. LX, 1973: On the Shores of Self: Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy'—Irredentism and the Creative Impulse. Gilbert J. Rose. Pp. 587-604.

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Abstract

The artist is seen as an irredentist: his pull toward a narcissistic fusion with the primal mother and his need for self-definition are played out in his work and in his relation to his work. 'What was one is now the artist and his work in a narcissistic interaction of rapprochement and detachment…'

PEP | Article - Psychoanalytic Review. LX, 1973: On the Shores of Self: Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy'—Irredentism and the Creative Impulse. Gilbert J. Rose. Pp. 587-604. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly