This is not death, it is something safer: a psychodynamic approach to Sylvia Plath.

TY - JOUR

T1 - This is not death, it is something safer: a psychodynamic approach to Sylvia Plath.

AU - Gerisch, Benigna

PY - 1998

Y1 - 1998

N2 - An attempt is made to illustrate the chronic suicidality and the separation-individuation conflict in the life and work of Sylvia Plath. Explanations of female suicidality in prevailing suicidality research are primarily influenced by male fantasms and gender role cliches. Plath's work, however, not only enables insight into her individual fate, but also offers a differentiated perception of suicidality among women. It becomes apparent that the texts in question are centered on specific conflict areas, in the sense of the formation of female identity and subjectivity, which affect current discussion on imagined concepts of femininity, and which are closely interwoven with the problems of female suicidality.

AB - An attempt is made to illustrate the chronic suicidality and the separation-individuation conflict in the life and work of Sylvia Plath. Explanations of female suicidality in prevailing suicidality research are primarily influenced by male fantasms and gender role cliches. Plath's work, however, not only enables insight into her individual fate, but also offers a differentiated perception of suicidality among women. It becomes apparent that the texts in question are centered on specific conflict areas, in the sense of the formation of female identity and subjectivity, which affect current discussion on imagined concepts of femininity, and which are closely interwoven with the problems of female suicidality.

M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz

VL - 22

SP - 735

EP - 761

JO - DEATH STUD

JF - DEATH STUD

SN - 0748-1187

IS - 8

M1 - 8

ER -