5/21/2023 0 Comments The italian radcliffeThe nun Olivia, particularly through her singing and her voice, strikes a particular chord in Ellena that will later be explained as the cri du sang attracting daughter to mother. In The Italian, she is interested in the mother-daughter bond primarily as a bond between women. 1 Although (patriarchal) psychoanalysis may have neglected this area of the psyche, Radcliffe is intent on exploring it. Irigaray emphasizes the ‘one thing that has been singularly neglected, barely touched upon, in the theory of the unconscious: the relation of woman to the mother and the relation of women among themselves’. In The Italian, Radcliffe extends the female circle to include other like-minded women, as if to overturn the status quo of women’s relation to each other in patriarchy. A Sicilian Romance closes with a female community whose members are also tied to each other by family bonds.
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