Chronological latency and human psyche
A study of the mirror stages in the time traveller’s wife
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clare, henry, identity, self, mirror, timeAbstract
Time travel in Audrey Niffenegger’s novel Time Traveler’s Wife explore the contour of the central character’s identity – its nature being fragmented across time. Unlike other scientific fiction centred on fracture of time, social order and improving one’s fate, the characters struggle to make sense of the nature of their existence through the novel. Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage theory talks about the maturing mind of a child upon gazing at a mirror. The concept can be extended and applied to the novel where the central character travels chaotically, hence tragically affected by identity-crisis. An analysis of the temporally distorted identity of the central characters shed light on the relevance of Lacanian interpretations of human psyche.
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