@article{Giordano_2024, title={Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin: A study of the novel from a psychoanalytical perspective}, volume={4}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.4.6.3}, DOI={10.22161/ijllc.4.6.3}, abstractNote={<jats:p>Émile Zola was a French novelist, affiliated with the literary movement of Naturalism, who was interested in an objective and scientific study of reality, an approach to literature which was at first very much debated and criticised. The investigation of literary works from a psychoanalytical perspective is commonly conceived as the examination of the hidden meanings of a text in relation to the author, to the personality of the characters of a novel, poetry or play and to the cognitive and emotional effects of the literary composition on the reader. The purpose of this paper is the investigation of the two main characters of Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin, Thérèse and Laurent, from a psychoanalytical point of view in relation to their single personalities, the dynamics of their relationship and to the problem of guilt associated with the criminal act.</jats:p>}, number={6}, journal={International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture}, publisher={AI Publications}, author={Giordano, Giuseppe}, year={2024}, pages={14–19} }