Always on the Verge of Being Found Out

Transitional Phenomena and the Re-Emergence of the Self in David Foster Wallace's Fiction

Giulia Affede

• Editorial: Aras Edizioni
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9791280074539
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: North American Literary Criticism

The author of the book proposes a study on the first two novels by David Foster Wallace in the light of Donald W. Winnicott's psychoanalytic theories, entering the international debate on the paradoxical ambivalence of the contemporary American writer towards postmodernism. The study makes use of Winnicottian principles such as theessential paradoxandtransitional phenomenain order to appreciate the coexistence in Wallace's narrative of inherently postmodern techniques together with elements, such as the characters and the author's inner self, that seemed doomed to drown with postmodernism, but which instead re-emerge in this analysis ofThe Broom of the SystemandInfinite Jest.