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Elizabeth Bishop's “In the Village” as a Work of Mourning
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Elizabeth Bishop had an extremely unhappy childhood, to quote her, "almost good enough for the text-books": Her father died of a disease when she was eight months old and her mother was in and out of mental institutions for the next five years and eventually was committed to Nova Scotia Hospital in 1916. Her mother died in 1934 after she spent eighteen years in the hospital without ever seeing her daughter. Despite her bitter experience, Bishop neither immersed or indulged in self-pity nor tried to make too much of it. Then, it is extraordinary that she decided to write "In the Village" in which she spelled out for the first time in decades what she had gone through regarding her disoriented mother. The story therefore can be read as a work of mourning in which Bishop finally tried to come to terms with the painful past: insanity, loss, death of her mother. She mourns her mother by reviewing, to use Freud's phrase, "each single one of the memories and expectations in which the libido is bound to" her mother. It is somewhat ambiguous and uncertain whether she succeeds in mourning, but it doesn't diminish the importance of the fact that she attempted to confront pain and suffering decades after her mother's disappearance from her life. This paper is an attempt to read the story as a "work of mourning" which can be, to quote Freud, "extraordinarily painful."
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Elizabeth Bishop had an extremely unhappy childhood, to quote her, "almost good enough for the text-books": Her father died of a disease when she was eight months old and her mother was in and out of mental institutions for the next five years and eventually was committed to Nova Scotia Hospital in 1916. Her mother died in 1934 after she spent eighteen years in the hospital without ever seeing her daughter. Despite her bitter experience, Bishop neither immersed or indulged in self-pity nor tried to make too much of it. Then, it is extraordinary that she decided to write "In the Village" in which she spelled out for the first time in decades what she had gone through regarding her disoriented mother. The story therefore can be read as a work of mourning in which Bishop finally tried to come to terms with the painful past: insanity, loss, death of her mother. She mourns her mother by reviewing, to use Freud's phrase, "each single one of the memories and expectations in which the libido is bound to" her mother. It is somewhat ambiguous and uncertain whether she succeeds in mourning, but it doesn't diminish the importance of the fact that she attempted to confront pain and suffering decades after her mother's disappearance from her life. This paper is an attempt to read the story as a "work of mourning" which can be, to quote Freud, "extraordinarily painful."
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