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标题："Oneself as Another": Identification and Mourning in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder
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作者：Suleiman, Susan Rubin
期刊名称：Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
印刷版ISSN：0145-7888
电子版ISSN：2334-4415
出版年度：2007
卷号：31
期号：2
页码：3
出版社：Kansas State University Libraries
摘要：Taking off from Paul Ricoeur's book Soi-même comme un autre (Oneself as Another), this essay discusses two kinds of identification in Modiano's relation to Dora: identification as appropriation, where the writer "assimilates" Dora's story in order to explore his own relation to his parents, especially his father; and identification as empathy, where the writer underlines the differences between his and Dora's stories and also seeks to come to a historical understanding of what happened to her. In that process, he also evokes the fate of other Jews who, like Dora and her family, were deported from France. I conclude that this kind of empathetic identification leads to mourning, which is the realization that the death of a person has left (as Jacques Lacan puts it) a "hole in the real."