SOURCE: "Sand: Double Identity," in Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille, Duke University Press, 1994, pp. 61-89.

In the following extract, Lukacher uses psychoanalytical theory to examine the function of doubled female figures in Indiana. Lukacher relates Sand's use of such doubling to the writer's complex relationship with the two mother figures in her life.

Which paternal eye was then opened on mankind the day it decided to divide itself by placing one sex under the domination of the other sex?

GEORGE SAND, Lélia

What is a name in our revolutionized and revolutionary society? A cipher for those who do nothing, a sign or an emblem for those who work of fight. The one I was given, I earned myself, after the event, by my own toil.

GEORGE SAND, Story of My Life

Inventing a Name and a Self

Like Stendhal's Vie de Henry Brulard, Sand's Histoire...