Volume 11 No. 2 — 1 October 1983

‘Down at the Dump’ and Lacan’s Mirror Stage

Veronica Brady
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Published 1 October 1983 in Volume 11 No. 2. Subjects: Australian culture, Characterisation, Psychoanalysis.

Cite as: Brady, Veronica. ‘‘Down at the Dump’ and Lacan’s Mirror Stage.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1983. https://doi.org/10.20314/als.97183a552a.

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