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Donne's The Flea.(John Donne)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060922
Author:Mansour, Wisam

Freud and Lacan argue that early modern manhood has always been associated with the separation from the mother, indicating an end, in Anthony Fletcher's words, to the "sexual twinship, which began with conception and the concoction of male and female seeds" (58). In view of such assumption, many of Donne's scholars have argued that Donne has, throughout his poetry, enforced that separation, rejecting a malleable self or the potentiality of full engagement with women who could possibly remind him of the embarrassing possibility of his own inconstancy. (1) Contrary to such views, in ...

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