Title

Not Getting It: The Allure of the Counterlife in Early and Late Roth

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2017

Abstract

Philip Roth, throughout his career—from “Goodbye, Columbus” (1959) to his final novel Nemesis (2010)—has been preoccupied with selfhood and identity in ways that lend themselves to analysis with fundamental psychoanalytic concepts and issues, particularly as they relate to uncontrolled impulses, unconscious drives and desires, and sublimation and repression. This essay engages with the ways in which Roth's fiction stages the impulsive dialectics of flight and return and fantasy and sublimation in his first and final works.

Identifier

10.5703/philrothstud.13.1.0029

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette, IN

Publication Information

Philip Roth Studies

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