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This paper examines how Alice in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland achieves her female identity, mainly focusing on the female body. Alice’s body becomes smaller and larger of her own accord to cope with the gaze of the other within the symbolic order. She feels uncomfortable with the size of her body measured by the scale of a rabbit and tries to become smaller. But she stops becoming smaller at a certain point feeling anxiety about death. Unlike an anorexic shrinking which continues until to death, she is able to stop herself from shrinking. Finally, she finds the lack in the symbolic order and overcomes the threat of castration. While she, like the paranoid, refuses to accept the symbolic order, she still achieves powerful identity by giving confidence to her body. Her body becomes the signifier of female jouissance which exists beyond the symbolic order.
