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Autobiographical discourse in Margarita Karapanou and the psychodynamics of the

motherdaughter relationship: This paper examines, on the basis of the recent pub-
lication by Margarita Karapanou, Life is wildly impossible (2008), the psychodynamics
of the relationship between mother and daughter. Our primary objective in this paper
is to explore, through the autobiographical and diary form of Karapanous narrative,
the manner in which the absence or abandonment by the mother figure during the
stage of infancy influences the psychic, and consequently the creative, self of the writer.
Moreover, the paper focuses on the imaginary representations of this mother-daughter
relationship, as we encounter them in some of her earlier works: Cassandra and the
wolf (1974), Mummy (2004) and Perhaps? (2006). This paper also attempts a concise
comparative study of the way in which the mother-daughter relationship is represented
in the work of Karapanous mother Margarita Limberaki (The Trees, 1945 and The
Straw Hats, 1946, as well as her correspondence with her daughter published in You
love me not. You Love me, 2008). The purpose of this comparative study is to analyse
the amphidromic relationship between mother and daughter and the manner in which
it has translated into literary output.

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