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    The Writing of an Abject Ego in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
    Witchayapakorn, Korphong; ก่อพงศ์ วิชญาปกรณ์ (2015)
    The purpose of this article is to read Plath’s The Bell Jar with the post-Freudian psychoanalysis theory. Overall, the critics usually criticize this particular text on the aspect of gender and writing, such as the female language, or women and the socio-politics of the time the text is written. As a result, the individuality of the text and protagonist are repressed. That is, an individual character (person) is turned into a representation of female as a whole; and an individual woman a representation of society. However, when read against the post-Freudian psychoanalysis theories: Kristeva’s abjection and Lacan’s mirror stage, it could be seen that the motif of writing and characterization is too complicated to be limited by an imposed feminist stance of the text. The text presents an ego formation that is not typically seen. Instead of being formed from a whole image, the protagonist’s ego is formed from her identification with the abject, such as an image of a cadaver, blood, vomit, and suicide. Consequently, the ego preserves itself by way of self-erasure. Despite the fact that an abject ego is often associated with femininity, when it is considered by itself, it could be seen that the abject ego in this text does not follow the generalizing abject ego in feminist discourse. Furthermore, because The Bell Jar is a book written by the protagonist, the formation of the text and narrative is affected by the protagonist’s abject ego, not only dictated by the feminist discourse as most critics conceive. The result is a rather fragmented narrative with distorted time of storytelling. This shows that the theme of writing in “The Bell Jar” could be approached from other perspectives aside from feminist and psychoanalytic reading.