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A Lacanian Analysis of Aeneas's Destiny and Dido's Tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Theses Digitization Project John M. Pfau Library 2008 Compensations for exile: A Lacanian analysis of Aeneas's destiny and Dido's tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid Jessica Marie Hayes Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project Part of the Classical Literature and Philology Commons Recommended Citation Hayes, Jessica Marie, "Compensations for exile: A Lacanian analysis of Aeneas's destiny and Dido's tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid" (2008). Theses Digitization Project. 3414. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3414 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the John M. Pfau Library at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses Digitization Project by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMPENSATIONS FOR EXILE: A LACANIAN ANALYSIS OF AENEAS'S DESTINY AND DIDO'S TRAGEDY .IN VIRGIL'S AENEID A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of California State University, San Bernardino In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in English Composition by Jessica Marie Hayes June 2008 COMPENSATIONS FOR EXILE: A LACANIAN ANALYSIS OF AENEAS'S DESTINY AND DIDO'S TRAGEDY IN VIRGIL'S AENEID A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of California State University, San Bernardino by Jessica Marie Hayes June 2008 Approved by: Date ABSTRACT In the purest form of Homer's heroic code, early and spectacular death in battle results in being immortalized in song forever. Virgil's revision of the Homeric heroic code does not require of the hero death in battle. Rather, Aeneas suffers numerous, personal sacrifices along his ordained nation-founding quest. The narratives of Aeneas's Destiny and Dido's Tragedy, both beginning with an exile from a homeland thereafter sought suggests a new view of the compensations for exile and empire founding. Virgil's Aeneid presents the reader with a fundamental interpretive crux: whether to interpret Virgil's revision of the Homeric heroic code as a reification of empire building as a glorious endeavor; or as a critique of the costs of empire as altogether too high. Examination of this crux is facilitated by a surprising theoretic lens: that of the model of gender development provided by French psychoanalyst and semiotician Jacques Lacan. Lacan's model of the human condition as one of exile from, and constant attempt to return to, a pre-linguistic state provides a critical vocabulary for reckoning the various costs of, compensations for, and comportments to exile, “gender, and iii j power alternatively presented by Aeneas and Dido. Lacan's model provides a perspective on Dido's Tragedy as one in which her suicide functions as a recognition that the very compensations and privileges Aeneas clings to so tenaciously prove to be inadequate compensations for the loss of the homeland. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest heartfelt thanks to my graduate advisory committee of Julie Paegle and Bruce Golden and to the Graduate Coordinator, Jacqueline Rhodes. I appreciate all of the time and consideration you put into this thesis and helping me navigate through the daunting writing process. Your interest in and excitement for this project kept me motivated through the end. To my family and friends, I thank you for your patience and support throughout this endeavor and your Words of encouragement and inspiration that drove me forward to complete my thesis. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................... v CHAPTER ONE: VIRGIL'S REVISION OF HOMER'S HEROIC CODE: AENEAS'S DESTINY, DIDO'S TRAGEDY .... 1 The Heroic Code: Virgil's Take on Homer's Tradition .......................................... 4 The Hero's Journey: Virgil's Derivative Epic.............................................. 10 Optimistic Interpretations: Epic Compensation for Aeneas........................................... 13 Transgendering: Movement without Loss of Gender Identity ....................................... 21 Pessimistic Interpretations: Dido's Insufficient Compensation ..................................... 25' CHAPTER TWO: LACANIAN PHALLIC POWER AND LINGUISTIC COMPENSATION................................. 32 A Reflection of I: The Fall into Language through "The Mirror Stage" ................................. 36 Language and Power: Need, Desire and Demand in "The Signification of the Phallus"................. 43 CHAPTER THREE: A LACANIAN VIEW ON THE SACRIFICE AND SUFFERING OF DIDO AND AENEAS......... 53' Troy as the Maternal, Aeneas's FirstExile ... 55 Dido's Tragedy, Aeneas's Turning-Point: Exile from Humanity and into Heroism................. 66 Dido's Tragedy: Naming Her Desire ............. 81 Virgil's Heroic Code: Empire as Exile ...... 93 vi REFERENCES 96 vii CHAPTER ONE VIRGIL'S REVISION OF HOMER'S HEROIC CODE: AENEAS'S DESTINY, DIDO'S TRAGEDY Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid famously derives major components of its plot structure, myths, and themes from Homer's epics The Iliad and The Odyssey. Eminently, Virgil revises the Homeric heroic code, in which warriors exchange early and spectacular death on the battle field for poetic immortality. The destiny of Aeneas, which predicts his escape from the fall of Troy, his voyage to Italy, and his eventual founding of Rome, requires of Virgil's hero, not death, but numerous personal sacrifices. Most•strikingly, during his voyage, Aeneas meets, falls in love with, and ultimately abandons Dido, the Queen of Carthage, who subsequently commits suicide. This thesis will attempt to show that Dido's Tragedy, rather than reinforcing or celebrating a patriotic version of Homer's heroic code, offers a critical view of the suffering involved in the founding of a new nation, and thus, of Aeneas's Destiny. As a result of Aeneas's quest to fulfill his destiny, Dido, rather than Aeneas, pays the ultimate price-her life. Moreover, by creating a character in Dido who becomes more 1 sympathetic as the epic progresses and as Aeneas's character becomes less sympathetic, Virgil suggests that the price of heroism is the hero's humanity. My analysis of the way Dido's Tragedy forms a critique of Aeneas's Destiny will rely heavily upon specific terminology coined and developed by Jacques Lacan, twentieth-century psychoanalyst and literary theorist. I will devote Chapter Two to exploring Lacan's models of the relationship between gender construction and human development and how they inform Virgil's explorations of Aeneas's destiny as a form of compensation for his loss of and exile from Troy. While my detailed argument must therefore wait until Chapter Three, an outline of the argument will help focus the literary review that comprises this first chapter. Lacan's contemporary theory proves to be surprisingly relevant to Virgil's classic epic since both texts explore consequences and compensations of perpetual exile from a homeland and the eternal desire to return to it. In Virgil's epic, both Aeneas and Dido are strikingly characterized by exile from homelands: Aeneas from the recently fallen Troy; Dido from Tyre. Both major characters seek compensations for their exiles. Aeneas's 2 compensation arises from his ultimate destiny as the founder and ruler of Italy while Dido's compensation arises from her attempt to seize power for herself as founder and ruler of Carthage. Moreover, the romantic relationship between Dido and Aeneas itself results in large part because of their shared status as exiles; their relationship, while it lasts, may also be read as a kind of compensation for their earlier losses of home and family. Similarly, Lacan's theories of gender development and language acquisition issue from a model in which exile from a pre-linguistic union with the maternal is central. While Dido and Aeneas are exiled from political states rather than a developmental stage, Virgil strikingly associates the homeland of Troy, that magical, whole and legendary state that is always already lost in Western Tradition, with maternal and feminine imagery. Thus, just as The Aeneid leads the reader to question the conventional economy of the heroic code Virgil inherits from the Homeric tradition, so Lacan's theories of exile and its ultimately insufficient compensations (language and gender development and relations) provide a useful lens for thinking through the competing claims of Dido and of Aeneas on the reader's sympathies. 3 This chapter will first explore the Homeric heroic code and Virgil's revision of the heroic code in Aeneas's Destiny and Dido's Tragedy. The chapter will then briefly review traditional or optimistic interpretations of the relationship between Virgil's heroic code, Aeneas's Destiny, and Dido's Tragedy, which variously uphold The Aeneid as a patriotic affirmation of Empire and its costs. A brief consideration of Barbara McManus's discussion of "transgendering," or the fluid movement between gender roles, will help to best situate my argument, which takes issue with such conventional, optimistic interpretations. The chapter will end with a brief review of other pessimistic interpretations of The Aeneid, in which I will situate my own analysis. The Heroic Code: Virgil's Take on Homer's Tradition Along with early and spectacular death in battle, the Homeric heroic code dictates that suffering and sacrifice for the good of the empire count as heroism. According to Margalit Finkelberg
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