El enigma de la feminidad en "El Espíritu de la Colmena": arqueología de una melancolía de género

Abstract

This article uncovers some of the fundamental gender keys that integrate the enigma of .El Espiritu de la Colmena. (The Spirit of the Beehive). Ana.s initiation trip demonstrates that it follows the feminine oedipal trajectory that Freud identifies with the stages of melancholy and masochism that are the background of the narrative plot. The author therefore proposes that the way to the formation of the protagonist.s womanliness will turn out to be correlative to that of propagation of melancholia as told in the story.