Three's a crowd: Stella's pregnancy and the arrival of an "other" in A Streetcar Named Desire. (16th August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jacobs, Daniel
• Is Part Of: International journal of applied psychoanalytic studies. Volume 16:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 174
• Page End: 180
• Publication Date: 2019-08-16
• Subjects: Blanche -- pregnancy -- Stella -- Tennessee Williams -- triangularity; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychanalyse -- Périodiques; Psychanalyse; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 150.195
• DOI: 10.1002/aps.1627
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-3341

Abstract

Abstract: This paper explores the difficulties that may arise for some men when their wives become pregnant. The advent of a child may threaten the intense marital dyadic relationship on which a man may depend. The author explores how this particular threat to a husband's sense of security is manifest dramatically in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. In this reading of the play, Stella's pregnancy and Stanley ' s feelings about it lie at the heart of the drama.