SOMETHING MORE THAN CESARIO: OBJET PETIT A AND THE TRIANGULATION OF OLIVIA’S DESIRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT

Laura Ribeiro Araújo

doi:10.34019/1983-8379.2024.v17.45379

Autores/as

Laura Ribeiro Araújo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Pós-Lit https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-0980

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/1983-8379.2024.v17.45379

Palabras clave:

Jacques Lacan, René Girard, Theory of Desire, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Resumen

Departing from a confluence of the works of Jacques Lacan and René Girard, this paper aims to investigate the expression of Olivia’s desire in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I contend that, rather than a dormant aspect waiting to be awakened by another character’s action, Olivia’s desire acts as a continuous force elicited by certain characteristics that appeal to her lack and that simultaneously pulls and pushes her towards the (im)possibility of its fulfillment. Olivia’s particular socio-cultural context, as well as her interactions with other characters in the play, backdrop the shaping of her desire and the selecting of her object-of-desire whilst expanding its possible interpretations. Placing side by side the concepts of objet petit a as well as that of the triangulation of the mimetic desire, I take advantage of the multiplicity of readings that marks the critical tradition of Shakespeare’s works in order to assess the intricacies of Olivia’s desire.

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Biografía del autor/a

Laura Ribeiro Araújo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Pós-Lit

Mestranda em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários (Pós-Lit) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Licenciada em Letras, ensino de inglês, e bacharel em Comunicação Social, ambas pela mesma instituição. Bolsista da Fundação de Amparo e Pesquisa de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG).

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