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However, my polysemic study of James’s and Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady has demonstrated a new perspective that has never been explored before in the academic field in Taiwan. An overview of psychoanalytic study to the verbal and visual makings of Isabel on the issue of intersubjectivity and female bonding by Klein and her follows suggests useful ways of appraising the representation of internal and external bonds for female subjectivity. Generally speaking, my study proposes, first, to expand the scope of intertextual study of James’s novel and adaptation that proceeds on the whole without the support of any theoretical account. As Brian McFarlane has recently observed in Novel into Film: “In view of the nearly sixty years of writing about the adaptation of novels into film . . . it is depressing to find at what a limited, tentative stage the discourse has remained” (2). However, in a polysemic approach, I consider that James’s The Portrait of a Lady and Campion’s cinematic adaptation are suited to fundamentally different tasks whose two authors invites a naturalistic approach and a stylized method. Even with some individual variations, their makings of Isabel strike the readers/viewers with a powerful authorial originality that underlines the complexity of female psyche. Therefore, my second tentative application focuses on a Kleinian psychoanalysis whose notion of phantasy explains well Isabel’s journey of psychological probing into the world of motherhood and female bonds. The discovery of Isabel’s journey into the pre-Oedipal phase where she could unite with the mother benefits our understanding of Campion’s featuring of Isabel’s many sequences of imagination. At the same time, it is also understandable to note James’s Isabel is sacrificed as a bourgeois victim in the Victorian society. Klein’s phantasies, thus, offer the best thematic solution to observe different makings of Isabel through a variety of media. Thirdly, the discussion of city-metaphor constitutes a better understanding of Isabel on the process of modernization and commercialization. As a Benjamin’s flaneur, Isabel walks through the cities of London, Rome, Florence, and Turkey to meditate her unique threshold experience torn between the death/life drive. At the very center of intertextual studies of James’s novel and Campion’s film, it has remained a space for broader theoretical range that is something worthwhile to be explored even though it is a rigor study that requires interdisciplinary training. Key words: adaptation studies, polysemic approach, death drive, Klein, Freud, phantasy, the unconscious, depressive position, paranoid-schizoid position, homosexuality, object-relation, primal scene, pre-Oedipal phase, city, mirror, flaneur |
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