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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One Wandering Between the Imaginary and the Symbolic Orders
1.1 The Imaginary Order
1.1.1 The Mirror Stage: The Identification in the Nihility Mirror
1.1.2 Narcissism—Eroticism and Aggressivity
1.1.3 Edna's Alienation: A Lonely Wanderer
1.2 The Symbolic Order
1.2.1 The Name -of-the-Father: The Authority of Patriarch
1.2.2 Fantasy: Fill of the Reality Loss
1.3 Struggle Between the Imaginary and the Symbolic Orders
Chapter Two Need, Demand and Desire
2.1 Need: Requirements of Survival
2.2 Demand: Articulation of Need for Love
2.3 Desire: Awakening of Self
2.3.1 Edna's Voice of Female Selfhood
2.3.2 Body: The Expression of Desire
2.3.3 Articulation of Self-Assertion
Chapter Three A Journey to Death
3.1 Death Drive: The Suicidal Tendency of Insatiable Desire
3.2 The Sea—Metonymy of Death
3.3 A Merging into the Sea: Embrace of Feminine Existence
Conclusion
Works Cited and Consulted