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“Every morning you have to wake up and be you”? Psicopatía y actancia en Gone Girl de Gillian Flynn (2012)
Author(s) -
Elena Avanzas Álvarez
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
odisea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i15.269
Subject(s) - girl , humanities , persona , art , sociology , psychoanalysis , art history , cartography , psychology , geography , developmental psychology
Resumen: Gone Girl de Gillian Flynn se ha convertido en una de las más exitosas y conocidas novelas de crímenes de los últimos años. Pero, ¿por qué? Este artículo explorará el personaje de Amy Elliott Dunne como mujer psicópata que ha revertido y cuestionado las creencias sociales de género, psiquiátricas y de actancia para las mujeres. Amy será analiza utilizando textos psiquiátricos canónicos, una narración autobiográfica y los enfoques más innovadores de la psicopatía para probar que, al terminar la novela, se ha convertido en la única persona capaz de definir su identidad, su cuerpo y su vida. Título en inglés: “Every morning you have to wake up and be you?” Psychopathy and Agency in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (2012).Abstract: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn has become one of the most successful and well– known crime fiction books in recent years. But why? This article explores the character of Amy Elliott Dunne as a female psychopath who has managed to subvert and question gender, psychiatry and agency expectations for women. Amy will be analysed using canonical psychiatric texts, a biographical account and the most innovative approaches to psychopathy to prove that by the end of the novel she emerges as the only dominant force in her life, her body and her identity

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