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Hallucinogenic Ecology and Psychoanalytic Prehistory in Margaret Atwood
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 52, Number 3, September 2019
- pp. 19-36
- 10.1353/mos.2019.0025
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Amidst a resurgence in the popularity of plant hallucinogens, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy foregrounds the historical association between organic drugs and ecological consciousness. This essay examines how Atwood dramatizes and critiques psychoanalytic narratives that have contributed to this connection since midcentury as ultimately nihilistic expressions of romantic primitivism.
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