Open AccessJ. G. BALLARD’S INNER SPACE: THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TIME, SPACE AND BODY
Author(s) -
Pedro Groppo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
em tese
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1982-0739
pISSN - 1415-594X
DOI - 10.17851/1982-0739.15.0.62-75
Subject(s) - freudian slip , space (punctuation) , spacetime , philosophy , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , art , physics , psychology , linguistics , quantum mechanics
The fiction of J. G. Ballard is unusually concerned with spaces, both internal and external. Influenced by Surrealism and Freudian psychoanalysis, Ballard’s texts explore the thin divide between mind and body. This analysis of the story “The terminal beach” illustrates well some of the concepts present throughout his fiction.