Psychosis as an Involuntary Mechanism of Interpretation of Reality in the Protagonist of The Tunnel.

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Psychoanalysis, Character, Latin American Boom, Reality, Literary Analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to base the reasons that lead the character Juan Pablo Castel from the novel of Ernesto Sabato The Tunnel (1948) to psychosis, understood as an involuntary strategy to interpret reality and act according to the worldview that generate. To explain this identity adoption, I return to the taxonomy elaborated by Donald Shaw regarding the influential context of the Latin American boom (which has a negative impact on social psychology) and the psychoanalytic epistemology of Jacques Lacan when referring to related notions that configure the protagonist as an entity detached from the real world and that has a potential unfounded knowledge towards the destruction of being.

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Published

2023-12-14

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Delgado del Águila, J. M. (2023). Psychosis as an Involuntary Mechanism of Interpretation of Reality in the Protagonist of The Tunnel. Sincronía, 27(83), 142–159. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/257

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Vol. 27 No. 83 (2023): January-June

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LETRAS

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