CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 1997
Manuel Puig's 'Pubis Angelical' brings together his interests in writing and psychoanalysis. Puig used the criticism of Jacques Lacan to analyze an individual's desire and subjectivity, and to portray the power of the unconscious to challenge the rules arbitrarily imposed by social order. Puig's story shows how signifying structures organize gender and sexuality, and suggest meaning is derived from the ideologies people accept.
Manuel Puig:[C]an people change their eroticism after a certain age? I
believe it's almost impossible. Those sexual fantasies have
crystallized during adolescence an...
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