Throughout William Faulkner's fiction, specifically in Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying, the impact of parents who intimately know failure and loss figure largely in the strange coming of age of their children. In the Compson family, the Sutpen family and the Bundren family, the influence of the parents' action or paralysis confuses the identities and roles of their children. The children often look to themselves or to one another in absence of healthy parental models, but they are not equipped to deal with their own or one another's emotional tumult. This inability to cope creates a tension that manifests itself in these children's behavior, their understanding of themselves, and their understanding of the world around them. Their experiences, the foundations of these experiences, and the outcomes set in motion a pattern for these children that is grounded in the failure of their parents.

Magistro darbo tikslas yra Kventino Kompsono savimonės analizė viename žymiausių Williamo Faulknerio romanų Triukšmas ir Įniršis. Pasirinktas objektas, t.y. minėtas romanas ir herojus, yra literatūrologų nagrinėtas ne tik iš įvairių perspektyvų, bet ir naudojantis įvairiomis metodologijomis. Dažnai naudotasi psichoanalitinėmis teorijomis, kurios padėjo atskleisti sudėtingus žmogaus sąmonės ir pasąmonės mechanizmus. Tokių analizių dėka pasirodė daug vertingų ir įdomių Kventino psichikos interpretacijų ir buvo atskleistas santykio tarp veikėjo vidinio ir išorinio pasaulio sudėtingumas. Paminėtinais darbais laikytini John T. Irwin Doubling and Incest/ Repetition and Revenge ir Doreen Fowler The Return of the Repressed, kuriuose atitinkamai daugelio žymiausių Faulknerio romanų analizei naudojamasi Sigmundo Freudo ir Jacques Lacano teorijomis. Šiuos darbus sieja tai, jog juose remiamasi bendra nuostata pagal kurią libido ir jouissance yra konceptualizuojamas Edipo komplekso kontekste. Kitaip tariant, John T. Irwin ir Doreen Fowler libido ir jouissance analizuoja iš griežtai froidiškų pozicijų ir juos supranta kaip pirmapradiškai ir neišvengiamai incestinius. Žymus prancūzų psichoanalizės teoretikas Lacanas sukritikavo tokį libido apribojimą Edipo kompleksu ir pateikė „isteriko diskurso“ išsklaidą bei pasiūlė naują būdą, kuriuo būtų galima konceptualizuoti libidines tėkmes, kurias jis vadino jouissance. Lacanas jouissance suvokė kaip esantį be vietos, o ne kaip priklausantį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of this Master work is to provide the analysis and interpretation of Quentin Compson’s self-consciousness in William Faulkner’s famous novel “The Sound and the Fury.” The chosen object, that is, the mentioned novel and character has received a lot of attention from literary scholars and has been approached numerous times from many different angles and various methodological perspectives. Psychoanalytic theories have often been employed to portray the complexity of the human mind and sophisticated workings of its unconscious dimension. Such an approach has produced many valuable and interesting interpretations of Quentin’s psyche and has illuminated the complex relation between the inner and the outer world of the character. The most notable works are John T. Irwin’s “Doubling and Incest/ Repetition and Revenge” and Doreen Fowler’s “The Return of the Repressed” that respectively employ the Freudian and the Lacanian theories in the analysis of many Faulkner’s famous novels. The common feature that the analyses of these scholars share is that in all of them libido and jouissance is elaborated in the context of Oedipal complex. That is to say that John T. Irwin and Doreen Fowler treat libido and jouissance in the strict Freudian way and understand it as primarily and inevitably incestuous. A prominent French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has criticized such a restriction of libido by Oedipus complex and has, in his elaboration of “hysteric’s discourse”, suggested a new... [to full text]

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第17965号 / 人博第661号 / 新制||人||159(附属図書館) / 25||人博||661(吉田南総合図書館) / 30795 / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)教授 水野 尚之, 教授 廣野 由美子, 准教授 小島 基洋 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

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<p>The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner’s story of the Compson family’s downfall in the American South during the early 20th century. The novel illustrates the impact on the cultural identity of the South of strictly defined social roles and the tension they created in the aftermath of slavery and defeat in the Civil War. In my analysis, I have chosen to focus on gender issues, especially in their Southern manifestation. The Compsons’ daughter, Caddy, figures prominently in the sons’ narratives, but is only portrayed through their perceptions and memories. My aim is to determine Caddy’s significance in the novel by exploring her relationships with her brothers, as seen through their eyes, and how she is characterized by them. In Benjy’s narrative, I examine her actions as a little girl in light of the Eve myth and the icon of the virgin mother. Quentin’s obsession with Caddy's sexuality as a teenager reveals the implications of associating female sexuality with death, the role of language in reproducing and combating established gender power structures, and the impact of traditional gender roles on women and men. Jason’s binary categorization of women as virgins or whores turns the few glimpses of Caddy as a mother into that of a woman treated as a commodity of exchange. In each of their narratives, Caddy is a dynamic character whose words, body, and actions expose prevailing social and gender power struggles. By conjuring her presence through her absence, her brothers reveal the depth and destructiveness of the social imperatives that underlie their attempts to control her. I suggest that Caddy’s role in the novel is to disrupt the brothers’ narratives and challenge the underlying Southern social and gender constructs that imbue them.</p>

The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner’s story of the Compson family’s downfall in the American South during the early 20th century. The novel illustrates the impact on the cultural identity of the South of strictly defined social roles and the tension they created in the aftermath of slavery and defeat in the Civil War. In my analysis, I have chosen to focus on gender issues, especially in their Southern manifestation. The Compsons’ daughter, Caddy, figures prominently in the sons’ narratives, but is only portrayed through their perceptions and memories. My aim is to determine Caddy’s significance in the novel by exploring her relationships with her brothers, as seen through their eyes, and how she is characterized by them. In Benjy’s narrative, I examine her actions as a little girl in light of the Eve myth and the icon of the virgin mother. Quentin’s obsession with Caddy's sexuality as a teenager reveals the implications of associating female sexuality with death, the role of language in reproducing and combating established gender power structures, and the impact of traditional gender roles on women and men. Jason’s binary categorization of women as virgins or whores turns the few glimpses of Caddy as a mother into that of a woman treated as a commodity of exchange. In each of their narratives, Caddy is a dynamic character whose words, body, and actions expose prevailing social and gender power struggles. By conjuring her presence through her absence, her brothers reveal the depth and destructiveness of the social imperatives that underlie their attempts to control her. I suggest that Caddy’s role in the novel is to disrupt the brothers’ narratives and challenge the underlying Southern social and gender constructs that imbue them.