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Article: Food and homecoming in Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)(Critical essay)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Although time-honored, the literary interest in food has reached a new level since Sigmund Freud put forth the groundbreaking theory that libidinal development starts with the mouth. For example, Freud writes:
Here sexual activity has not yet been separated from the ingestion
of food; nor are opposite currents within the activity
differentiated. The object of both activities is the same; the
sexual aim consists in the incorporation of the object--the
prototype of a process which, in the form of identification, is
later.to play such an important psychological part. (273; emphasis
added)
According to Freud, then, eating is essentially the ...