Reference no: EM13475048

Select one of the following passages and apply it to a brief but specific and rigorous analysis of The Catcher in the Rye, .

Passage 1: Barthes: "Ideological imperatives express themselves through a multiplicity of codes which ‘invade' the text in the form of key signifiers. Each of these signifiers represents a digression outside of the text to an established body of knowledge which it connotes; each one functions as an abbreviated version of the entire system (code) of which it is a part". Codes contribute to "plurality of meaning" in texts and can express the dominant values of a given historical period or culture.

What are the codes that invade the text you've chosen and how do they present "ideological imperatives"? Further, how do these codes add up to a presentation of the text's/culture's dominant values? How do they contribute to meaning in the text?

Passage 2: "Freud stresses that neither the primary nor the secondary process is alone capable of signification; it is only through their collaboration that discourse occurs, and that the subject is constituted"

Passage 3: "Since the preconscious subject is entirely organized through language, and since language functions as an agency for repressing and hence for structuring the unconscious, subjectivity can only be understood through the operations of signification. Moreover, since all signifying formations are produced though the collaboration of the primary and secondary processes, signification is equally inconceivable apart from subjectivity"

* Provide one or more examples from either text of the operations of the primary and secondary processes collaborating to constitute the subject. Explain how your examples specifically create or constitute the subject you've chosen.