Abstract
In their article "A Psychological Outline of 'Yerma's Dream'" Fusco and Tomassoni examine the world of Lorca in his play. Fusco and Tomassoni present an examination of the psychological characteristics of this world, and focus their attention upon a dream of one its female protagonists. Yerma is observed to be a heroine of "sterility" -- or rather, the heroine of an impossibility to love. The heroics of this impossibility is interpreted according to the social constraints made upon women within a male dominated society. These constraints are said to surface symptomatically within her own dream world -- as a heroine who is allowed to experience love only in the form of an illegitimate desire to procreate.
Recommended Citation
Fusco, Antonio;
and Tomassoni, Rosella.
"A Psychological Outline of "Yerma's Dream"."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
3.3
(2001):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1112>
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