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Part of the book: Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil

Andrew Webber

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 30

Bithell Series of Dissertations 15

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  We have seen that the cooperative crises of sense and sensuality in Törleß turn on a fantasied scenario where the subject enters into the female space of the 'Versteck', there to gaze upon the phallic object, the scenario being recurrently forestalled by the intervention of a series of 'Vorwände'. In the two novellas published together as the Vereinigungen this scenario is developed from the point of view of a female protagonist. Once more the psychosexual quest for identity is transposed into the metaphorical space of a house, encountering walls and doorways.

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