Title
Negotiating the Heroic Paternal Ideal: Historical Fiction as Transference in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Psychoanalytic reading of Robert Jordan’s separation of the masculine and feminine. Finds echoes of both Jordan’s and Hemingway’s “inverted” parental figures in Jordan’s relationships with Pilar, Pablo, and Maria. Concludes that Jordan’s death “is both literally and symbolically a consequence of his adolescent disillusionment in the heroic, paternal ego ideal, which re-awakens in him the threat of castration by the real, flawed, and threatening father.”
Published in
Literature and Psychology
Volume
41
Issue
1-2
Date
1995
Pages
85-112
COinS
Citation
Boker, Pamela A. “Negotiating the Heroic Paternal Ideal: Historical Fiction as Transference in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Literature and Psychology 41, nos. 1-2 (1995): 85-112.