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Three's a crowd: Stella's pregnancy and the arrival of an “other” in A Streetcar Named Desire
Author(s) -
Jacobs Daniel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1627
Subject(s) - stella (programming language) , feeling , drama , reading (process) , psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , art , literature , political science , art history , law
Abstract This paper explores the difficulties that may arise for some men when their wives become pregnant. The advent of a child may threaten the intense marital dyadic relationship on which a man may depend. The author explores how this particular threat to a husband's sense of security is manifest dramatically in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. In this reading of the play, Stella's pregnancy and Stanley ' s feelings about it lie at the heart of the drama.