Repetition Race And Desire In The Great Gatsby

In this critical essay, “Repetition, race, and desire in The Great Gatsby” written by Adam Meehan, states that we should look at Gatsby through a lens of cognitive landmarks that are identified in the novel. With psychological criticism, Meehan applies modern psychological principles of Lacan to the study of literature and explains how symbols in the literature reflect Gatsby’s desires and ties to his surrounding characters. Meehan points out Gatsby’s desire regarding Lacan’s “fundamental fantasy.” Daisy is a commodity fetish of Gatsby and simply becomes its object manifestation for Gatsby’s symbolic transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. With a chance being Gatsby’s lineage tie to America’s earliest settlers as his family may have originally