What is/are the desire(s) that drive(s) the narrative of The Makioka Sisters? Approach the question from an angle of your choice, e.g., one or multiple characters; the narrative voice; or (the logic of) events in the story; or all of the above.
This is the prompt for our paper on The Makioka Sisters, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
While it would be nice to be given a few helps on how to structure my paper, I want to ask a broader question of what exactly the 'narrative voice' is, and how it represents 'desires'.
A brief search shows that Freud, Lacan and Derrida are some of the involved names in this subject matter; also, Peter Brooks seems to have made this his major subject of study. In this sense, is it possible to get a brief summary/explanation of how Freud, Derrida and Lacan defined desire?
It would be even better if I could also get an explanation on the correlation between desires and the narrative voice.