Our Lady of the Flowers | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Our Lady of the Flowers.

Our Lady of the Flowers | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Our Lady of the Flowers.
This section contains 10,135 words
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SOURCE: Lucey, Michael. “Genet's Notre-Dame-des Fleurs: Fantasy and Sexual Identity.” Yale French Studies, no. 91 (1997): 80-102.

In the following essay, Lucey examines Genet's approach to fantasy in his perception of sexual identity as it appears in his literary works, particulary Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.

Le fantasme est le soutien du désir, ce n'est pas l'objet qui est le soutien du désir.

Fantasy is the support of desire; it is not the object that is the support of desire.

—Jacques Lacan

Le problème n'est pas de découvrir en soi la vérité de son sexe, mais c'est plutôt d'user désormais de sa sexualité pour arriver à des multiplicités de relations. Et c'est sans doute là la vraie raison pour laquelle l'homosexualité n'est pas une forme de désir mais quelque chose de désirable.

The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex...

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