The Days of Abandonment

From constraint to liberation through language

Abstract

The text of this article is nothing more than an effect of our reading of Elena Ferrante's work. Due to that, we begin with a brief presentation of the author and the book The Days of Abandonment. From the novel, we start to put into motion some of our considerations on the writing undertaken by Ferrante. In the weft of thoughts that we seek to draw, we consider mainly the themes of feminism and psychoanalysis. At first, we build a bridge between some writings of Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Elena Ferrante as a means of thinking about the context of female writing that subsists despite the setbacks. In the last section of this paper, we venture an approximation between literature and psychoanalysis as a way of thinking about literary creation in the outline of chaos.