Umbelini: The Voice of the Unconscious

Ramayana is a narrative knitted through multiple voices but is written around the story of Rama, neglecting the voices of the minor characters. The contemporary South Asian authors breaking the conventional norms of Ramkatha tradition have provided agency to such characters through their contemporary renderings. The study tries to bring forth such hidden nested narratives of the unheard characters of Mandavi and Urmila who are identified either in relation to Sita or their husbands, to re-define the idea subaltern. The paper will analyse the social and political oppression faced by the two female characters because of the existing gender and power hierarchy existing in the text, the unconscious oppression and suffering neglected by the author, reader and the characters of the text as well. The paper will try to analyse the contemporary renderings as an agency and subaltern space for the voice of these subaltern unsung characters of Ramayana, understanding how the concept of unconscious subaltern and normalization of oppression on these character in the epic, demarcating the related myths.

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The Three Syntheses of the Body: From the Voice to Speech

The Psychoanalysis of Sense ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409025.003.0004 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Collett

Keyword(s):

General Problem ◽

The Body ◽

The Unconscious ◽

The Voice

Firstly, this marriage of language and the unconscious – or this paradoxical unity of sense and nonsense – appears to allude to the work of the Lacanian school, which he later adds has ‘completely renewed the general problem of the relations between language and sexuality’.2 Secondly, to contribute something original, in light of Lacan’s work – but also, it is implied, because Lacan’s work has not yet reached its own ground (as conceived by Deleuze) – Deleuze is saying here that we need to turn to the work of Carroll, so as to examine ‘what else’ language and the unconscious are connected with. This third term, it is implied, is more fundamental than either language or the unconscious taken separately, underlying them both and accounting for the importance of their relation.

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Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire by Jill Gentile with Michael Macrone Law and The Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective by Anne C. Dailey Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously by Maria Aristodemou

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ◽

10.1177/0003065120937336 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 503-520

Author(s):

Nomi Maya Stolzenberg

Keyword(s):

Free Speech ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽

The Voice

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The Silenced Narrator and the Notion of “Proto-Narrative”

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244020988522 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 215824402098852

Author(s):

Marina Biti ◽

Iva Rosanda Žigo

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Experience ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Deep Zone ◽

Theoretical Level ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Construction Of Self ◽

Narrative Subject ◽

The Voice ◽

Narrative Voices

Narrative voices in Ismet Prcić’s memoir/novel “Shards” are many; this article primarily focuses on what we refer to as the voice of the “silenced narrator” that appears to speak from a deep (“s ubdiegetic”) narrative level shaped by the unconscious workings of traumatic experience. Starting from psychological insights into traumatic states (Elbert and Schauer, Hunt, Crossley, etc.) and tracing the encoded symptoms of this illness across the text, the discussion moves on to a theoretical level to investigate notions proposed by authors such as Genette (to discuss narrative levels), Ricœur (in examining the construction of self), Caruth (in evaluating narrative implications of the literary voicing of trauma), Antonio Damasio (in exploring the source and the nature of the trauma-related destruction of the narratively voiced “I”), and others. These are used to establish the concept of a narrative subject whose voice emerges from the deep zone of their “proto-self” (Damasio), to be weaved into a distinctive narrative form that we will refer to as “proto-narrative.”

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The ‘Slate Ode’

Mandelstam's Worlds ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198857938.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-196

Author(s):

Andrew Kahn

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Economic Policy ◽

Value Systems ◽

First Person ◽

New Economic Policy ◽

The Unconscious ◽

The Voice ◽

Genealogy Of Morals ◽

Policy Discussion

The focus of this chapter is the ‘Slate Ode’ (1922). Widely regarded as one of the greatest poems in Russian, it has been read primarily as a subtextual palimpsest. The reading given in this chapter embeds the poem in a set of overlapping contexts, tracing the poem’s utopian language to the value systems of utopian socialist thought in which Mandelstam was steeped; situating it in the context of the Russian reception of Nietzsche, a key thinker for many Russian revolutionaries whose vision in the Genealogy of Morals of a new morality Mandelstam’s poem enacts; exploring its link to New Economic Policy discussion of the primitive economy and natural communism mirrored in the poem, as well as its connection to other thought systems such as mythical ideas of return and a vision of society that replicates the morality of early Christians. Psychological division marks the voice of the speaker who in these new conditions interrogates the sources of poetry and the poet’s own authority. Far from assuming that he can speak with the vatic certainty of the poet-lawgiver of the nineteenth-century Romantic tradition, the first-person speaker delves into the language of the unconscious and Orphic tradition.

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