Affinity towards dolls in Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread
A transitional object
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object, transformation, ego, transference, environment, subject, attachmentAbstract
In Helen Oyeyemi's latest novel Gingerbread (2019), an object signifies transformation in adult life from a specific angle. The paper studies the transformational Object and its relation to the subject, primarily an ego transformation. Object-seeking, in the case of Perdita, a seventeen-year-old isolated girl, one of three generations of women in the novel, is the cause for the experience of an object transforming the subject's internal and external world. Linking the Object with the subject is the source of transformation. To expand the phenomenon, the unique analytic relationship with the Object is identified with the ego's state, discussed by Christopher Bolla's in his book The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the unthought known. (2018)
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