SOURCE: Conlon, Raymond. “Enrico in El condenado por desconfiado: A Psychoanalytical View.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos X, No. 2 (Winter 1986): 173-82.

In the following essay, Conlon makes use of Freudian theory about the connection between a person's conception of God and the relationship with one's father to examine the character of the bandit Enrico in El condenado por desconfiado. Conlon argues that “Enrico, like the rest of humanity, simply has no choice but to use his father as a model for the divine, and, therefore, to assume that his divine Father will be as tolerant as his human one.”

A pesar del hecho de que el carácter psicológico de El condenado por desconfiado es generalmente reconocido, la obra tiene una dimensión freudiana que los estudios críticos no han tomado en cuenta hasta el presente. Este aspecto psicoanalítico radica en el personaje de...