An unusual sublimation of the female: Maternal power over paternal repression in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

This paper aims at analysing William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying through a variety of contemporary reading strategies, especially to identify his famous character Addie Bundren. In the novel, represents narrative ego, monstrous-feminine double, who is capable experiencing and sublimating paternally repressed desires. this respect, major framework will be constructed on Julia Kristeva’s theories abject abjection her rereading Lacanian human subject. Within scope traditional Western culture language, pre-oedipal stage, as identified with mother, has been treated nonverbal, oppositional realm that threatens subject’s ego boundaries law language. Unlike psychoanalytical approaches which conceptualize maternal register threat identification process incorporation Symbolic order, theorists intersect point investing eternal bound source existence. Along Kristeva, alternative literary perspectives also employed. Through several strategies based issues like sexuality, gender or feministic politics Grotesque Surrealist approaches, study whether in inspires voice for emancipation self-realization marginalized subordinated subjects