Lacan: The Essential Writings Jacques Lacan

The graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel opens with a series of panels portraying how she and her father used to play airplane. At the same time, Bechdel makes a connection between them playing airplane and the myth of Icarus and Daedalus. It...

In Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, the characters’ attitudes towards their sexualities are shaped by their identity-forming processes. Sula and Nel, despite their similarities, have clashing beliefs about sex due to the vastly different female role...

In Tommy Orange’s There There, several unique characters show acute awareness of their “otherness” as members of a minority American culture, yet struggle to uncover their personal identities. In “Phenomenology of Spirit,” German philosopher Georg...