From Fetish to "the Thing": the Importance of Objects in Fabián Casas' Ocio
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https://doi.org/10.24029/lejana.2018.11.255Keywords:
Fabián Casas, fetish, das Ding, Argentinian literature, contemporary narrativeAbstract
Using certain notions from psychoanalysis, as “fetish”, “phantom”, and “das Ding”, this paper will focus on the analysis of the Argentinian writer Fabián Casas’ narrative, considering his novel Ocio (2000) as the centerpiece to declare the following: the presence of some items has extreme importance for the characters, because they will function in, at least, two levels: an empirical and phenomenal (helping the characters inhabit some given spaces in a friendlier way), and other “sublime” (acting as a fetish; as a façade to get more complex and harmful content away from them, associated to what Jacques Lacan denominates as “the Real”). This way, an essential axis to his narrative will be discovered: objects help beating around the bush to avoid facing something that, inevitably, will end up coming out, and which always is related to primary affections.
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