The main question with regard to analysis of Vitomil Zupan's Potovanje na konec pomladi (Journey to the End of Spring) is how to the narrator, a Slovene teacher, female figures become objects of love. An answer can be found with the help of Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire, which attempts to deal with how on object becomes an object of desire. Help can also be offered by elements of psychoanalysis from Lacan's essay On the Signification of the Phallus and the theory of jealousy which Jean-Pierre Dupuy developed as a modification of mimetic theory.
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