Inez Van Der Spek
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780853238140
- eISBN:
- 9781781380444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238140.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In James Tiptree Jr's ‘A Momentary Taste of Being’, a story about alien encounter, the main protagonist, Dr Aaron Kaye, experiences oceanic awareness, which in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the ...
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In James Tiptree Jr's ‘A Momentary Taste of Being’, a story about alien encounter, the main protagonist, Dr Aaron Kaye, experiences oceanic awareness, which in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the (revived) feeling of the symbiotic-semiotic oneness with the mother – that is, the imaginary return to paradise. This chapter examines the narrative viewpoint of Lory Kaye, Dr Aaron Kaye's younger sister, and analyses her submerged story in the interpretative framework of the apocalyptic imagination of science fiction. It discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives on the apocalyptic orientation of science fiction in relation to the particular, feminist apocalypse of the story. The chapter also considers possible revisions of the imagery of the Book of Revelation as well as the structure of apocalyptic imagination in the text.Less
In James Tiptree Jr's ‘A Momentary Taste of Being’, a story about alien encounter, the main protagonist, Dr Aaron Kaye, experiences oceanic awareness, which in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the (revived) feeling of the symbiotic-semiotic oneness with the mother – that is, the imaginary return to paradise. This chapter examines the narrative viewpoint of Lory Kaye, Dr Aaron Kaye's younger sister, and analyses her submerged story in the interpretative framework of the apocalyptic imagination of science fiction. It discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives on the apocalyptic orientation of science fiction in relation to the particular, feminist apocalypse of the story. The chapter also considers possible revisions of the imagery of the Book of Revelation as well as the structure of apocalyptic imagination in the text.
