RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The Dead Father : retrato del padre en la postmodernidad A1 Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther K1 Historia de América K1 America-History K1 Filología K1 Philology AB Barthelme's portrait of the fictional father provides a cryptic caricature that oscillates between profoundity and nonsense. Through a psychoanalytic reading of the Dead Father (1975), starting from Freud and drawing from Lacan, I reflect upon the fictional representation of the process of internalizing symbolic authority as conscience in postmodem textuality. This allows us to question father structures in fiction, the issue of literary paternity and even our problematic access to the realm of the Symbolic. This paper is in many ways intended as a reflection on Barthelme's novel and on Roland Barthes' affirmation that every narrative "is staging of the (absent, hidden or hypostatized) father". PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones YR 1995 FD 1995 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4920 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4920 LA spa DS MINDS@UW RD 20-abr-2024