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Desire in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

The concept of desire is complex and has been dealt with extensively within the field of psychoanalysis. Two most prominent psychoanalysts, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, have defined desire in different ways, as predominantly sexual and predominantly cultural, respectively. The aim of the paper is to present how each of these two concepts plays off in literature, more precisely in the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. While Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises depicts Freudian, sexual desire as the motivating force of one of the main protagonists, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby focuses on desire as a culturally determined factor in human life.

desire; psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Hemingway; Fitzgerald

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