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Obsessional Neurosis, the Paranoid-Schizoid Position, and the Bourgeois Family in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2021
- pp. 131-154
- 10.1353/aim.2021.0004
- Article
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Abstract:
This paper is a psychoanalytic analysis of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle as an exploration of obsessional neurosis, the paranoid-schizoid position and the bourgeois family.