The subject of reading and The colonial unconscious: Countertransference in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians

摘要

Central to the concept of countertransference developed by either Freud and Lacan is the problematic relationship between the subject of reading (both reading and read) and the unconscious desires. Actually, counter- transference in psychoanalytic situations exposes " the primal scene" in which the analyst fully dramatizes his unconscious desires in front of the analysand. Similar kinds of primal scenes, I discover, figure importantly in J.M. Coetzee's fiction Waiting for the Barbarians to address the issues of Te subject of reading and unconscious desires within a postcolonical con- Text.