نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه گیلان، رشت، ایران
2 دانشیار زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی دانشگاه گیلان، رشت، ایران.
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نویسندگان [English]
Informed by the Lacanian conceptualisation of “desire” and “the Name-of-the-Father,” this article investigates Amirhossein Allahyari’s Qorab Jendun and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The present study dialogically investigates the narrative of patricide, and offers insight into the mechanisms of the Name-of-the-Father. The present study sheds light on the role of the (m)other or mother figure in facilitating the removal of the father or father figure, and gives a psychological sketch of the mechanism through which Hamlet and KhanZadeh are already engulfed by the Name-of-the-Father. This study draws upon thematic textual analysis and Lacanian psychoanalysis to comparatively analyse the concepts of “desire” and the “Name-of-the-Father,” and their ramifications in the two works. This article concludes that Hamlet’s dilemma is about separating himself from the demand of the (m)other and realising his own desire. Along the same line, Khan Zadeh’s act of patricide, affected by Mah Baji’s toxic narrative, is in accordance with his unconscious conceptualisation of the desire of the (m)Other. This comparative study pinpoints their differentiation in Hamlet’s fantasised and superficial Catharsis through mourning and facing death; against Khan Zadeh’s firm belief in an afterlife where his (m)Other awaits him, which leads to self-destruction and demolition of his fatherland. However, despite the apparent fall of the father figure in two very different structures of narrative and society, the reign of the Name-of-the-Father remains intact.
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