A Postmodernist Reading Of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl Through Lacanian Psychonoanalysis

Résumé: This research is an attempt to provide a psychoanalytical investigation into the American writer Gillian Flynn‘s novel Gone Girl (2012) within a postmodernist frame. The novel portrayed different controversial themes such as mystery and crime. Gone Girl is indeed a contentious work because it boldly reveals the chaotic nature of societies at different levels including economic crises, failure of the marriage relationships and mental illnesses which overwhelm most people. Furthermore, this research constitutes an examination of the postmodernist elements found in Flynn‘s novel Gone Girl such as intertextuality and metafiction. It also looks into how Lacan‘s theories of psychoanalysis are projected in the work. Similarly, the views of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan are scrutinized through the characters, themes and plot in order to highlight the necessity of understanding ones‘ psyche in overcoming their insecurities. We have relied on the analytical approach` following a descriptive method to explore the different ways that allow this work to be studied under the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis

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