Elio — the Self and Love Intertwined : A Self-narrative Analysis of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name
Packalen, Rebecka (2024-09-23)
Elio — the Self and Love Intertwined : A Self-narrative Analysis of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name
(23.09.2024)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024092474556
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024092474556
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Aciman’s novel, Call Me by Your Name (CMBYN) (2007) is a coming-of-age tragic love story, narrated by 17-year-old Elio in the first-person past tense as he looks back on his young and infatuated love for confident 24-year-old Oliver. Elio’s recollection of this part of his life, as Aciman has written, provides an ideal source for acquiring thorough insight into how experience(s) with love affect and ultimately mold the self. Elio’s narration creates a portal for grasping at the rawness of emotional and internalized conflict culminated by initial experiences with love and desire as a young person, while not yet having developed a strong sense of self.
To analyze Elio’s self-narrative, and development as a character, this thesis utilizes three theories that complement each other. The concepts and models, Erikson’s (1950) life stage theory, McAdams’s (1995) 3-factor model of personality, and Linville’s (1987) self-complexity model are incorporated into and guide analysis deconstructing Elio’s sense of self and how Oliver influences it.
This stage of identity-exploration emphasizes finding identity through social means, depicting an accentuation of communal motives and themes in the narrative identity. This is followed by conflict between agentic motives which depict resistance to needing or being dependent on others. Elio presents as having a vulnerable-developing sense of self, with a tendency to base his self-worth almost solely on the affection he receives from Oliver. Elio’s insufficient ability to also acquire self-esteem internally, together with his limited self-complexity, propel a significant degree of internalized turmoil to overflow throughout CMBYN, occurring in tandem with Oliver’s avoidance and verbal inattentiveness. Significant emotional turbulence is prompted additionally by Elio having to face the internal shame of realizing, denying, and accepting homosexuality during an already vulnerable time in youth, i.e. identity-exploration.
To analyze Elio’s self-narrative, and development as a character, this thesis utilizes three theories that complement each other. The concepts and models, Erikson’s (1950) life stage theory, McAdams’s (1995) 3-factor model of personality, and Linville’s (1987) self-complexity model are incorporated into and guide analysis deconstructing Elio’s sense of self and how Oliver influences it.
This stage of identity-exploration emphasizes finding identity through social means, depicting an accentuation of communal motives and themes in the narrative identity. This is followed by conflict between agentic motives which depict resistance to needing or being dependent on others. Elio presents as having a vulnerable-developing sense of self, with a tendency to base his self-worth almost solely on the affection he receives from Oliver. Elio’s insufficient ability to also acquire self-esteem internally, together with his limited self-complexity, propel a significant degree of internalized turmoil to overflow throughout CMBYN, occurring in tandem with Oliver’s avoidance and verbal inattentiveness. Significant emotional turbulence is prompted additionally by Elio having to face the internal shame of realizing, denying, and accepting homosexuality during an already vulnerable time in youth, i.e. identity-exploration.