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S/LI/439. Sex and death in Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: Say Die and I Will Die

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DATE:
2010
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The paper aims to illustrate that the tie between sex and death is linguistically evident in the phrase la petite mort, French for ‘the little death'. This phrase describes ‘the sensation of orgasm as likened to death.' The psychological mix of pleasure and unpleasure, death and sex, is shown as being inherent in Bertha Mason's character in Wide Sargasso Sea, and citing Freud, is described as a universal human condition.

 

KEYWORDS: Sex, death, Freud, psychoanalysis, literature, Rhys!,

 
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