scholarly journals Non-Identity and Parodoxicality in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Abolfazl Mohammadi ◽  
Javad Momeni
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Angela Carter ◽  
Ego Ideal ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Ideal Ego

Angela Carter (1940-92) in her famous short story,The Bloody Chamber, depicts a protagonist whose identity seems to be a predetermined sign in a signifying loop from which she can make no escape. In the first part of our paper, we attempt to show how The protagonist’s ensuing psychological tension is aggravated by the conflict which she feels between her ideal ego (as an innocent girl) and her ego-ideal (a rare talent for corruption) and which leads her to unrelenting introspection and interior dialogue with her existential states. Such interior dialogue provides the protagonist with an existential ground on which she empties all her life events of their presence by signifying (or verbalizing) them through Derridean Differance. Therefore, her interior dialogue results in non-identity in her subjectivization both in the realm of signs and of (social) events. Then, we focus on the protaganist’s paradoxical urges spontaneously outflowed from within which, by resisting symbolization, provide her with the possibility of becoming what she thinks she has never been and allow for her moments of self-determination. Finally, we illustrate how such psychological odyssey takes shape in the Gothic setting which arouses, in Lacanian terminology, pre-symbolic tendencies and which involves the coincidence of Gothic horror with the horrors of social reality.

scholarly journals KARYA SASTRA SEBAGAI DOKUMEN SOSIAL DALAM TRILOGI CERPEN PENEMBAK MISTERIUS KARYA SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA-OBJEKTIF

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Suantoko Suantoko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
New Order ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
Social Events ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Document

The Seno Gumira Ajidarma short story collected in the Penembak Misterius trilogy is very interesting to read. In addition, as a social document, the collection of short stories can be identified a social setting that actually became a place of social events occurred, the social setting of the Penembak Misterius that occurred during the New Order era in the 1980s. More precisely the social setting created at the party meeting officials in a hotel, the shootings through the night, and the violence of the state apparatus. The social context referred to by Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a mysterious shooting incident known as "petrus" during the New Order period. It is intended to denounce the practice of legal violence from the action of "petrus." As a social document or even a social critique of the New Order rule, the Penembak Misterius trilogy comes as a social relation of literary works to social reality. That is because, the silence of the conscience is very interesting shown by the assassin. When the issue of "Petrus" is about to be removed from the memory of society, this trilogy is present in the public. The presence of the "Petrus" trilogy depicted in not only be seen as a social document but also a lawsuit against social reality in the New Order era.

scholarly journals Enjoying an Empty Edifice

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-323
Author(s):  
Nebojša Blanuša ◽  
Vedran Jerbić
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Ego Ideal ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Turkish Nationalism ◽  
Quadruple System ◽  
Invented Traditions ◽  
Ideal Ego

This paper reaffirms the methodological potentials of Lacanian psychoanalysis for the theories of nationalism. From the Lacanian perspective, national consciousness and self-determination are only possible in the fantasmatic frame­work through the (mis)recognition and retroactive construction. National imagination is the form of transference, necessary for performing the nation through invented traditions and rituals. However, beyond symbolization and imaginary (mis)recognition, there is always something that resists closure, linked with the subjects' desire and organized around the lack of the subjects' full enjoyment. Taking together all these aspects, we build an analytical framework for the study of nationalism, which comprises a quadruple system of identifications by referring to the concepts of Ideal-Ego, Ego-Ideal, Super-Ego and specular Other, and illustrate it through the example of the AKP's Turkish nationalism.

scholarly journals Minangkabau Community in the Collection of Kaki Yang Terhormat Short Story by Gus Tf Sakai

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-135
Author(s):  
Habibullah Karami ◽  
Aruna Laila ◽  
Wahyudi Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Science System ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The Many ◽  
Livelihood System

The problem in this study is the many forms of social reality of the Minangkabau people in Collection of Kaki Yang Terhormat Short Story by Gus Tf Sakai. This problem is the main reference to find out what the social reality of the Minangkabau community is in the Collection of Kaki Yang Terhormat Short Story by Gus Tf Sakai from the perspective of the author. This type of research is qualitative research. The method used in this research is descriptive method. The data in this study are in the form of words, sentences and dialogues related to Minangkabau social reality. The data source in this study is a Collection of Kaki Yang Terhormat Short Story by Gus Tf Sakai. The results of this studyillustrate the social reality of the Minangkabau people that occur from cultures or  traditions that have been born from their ancestors, which are customs or that have become identities for the people in Minangkabau or from habits that occur repeatedly and are designated as traditions for the Minangkabau people. Based on this, social reality of the Minangkabau people in Collection of Kaki Yang Terhormat Short Story by Gus Tf Sakai in terms of (1) language, there are Minang languages and Indonesian languages; (2) the science system, regarding takambang nature to become a teacher; (3) social systems / social systems, in the form of traditions that become the identity of the Minangkabaucommunity; (4) equipment / equipment, regarding equipment / characteristics for the Minangkabau community which is a necessity for life and culture of the Minangkabau community; (5) livelihood system, regarding work for the Minangkabau people (6) arts, concerning the motion art possessed by the Minangkabau people namely silek, and (7) religious systems, regarding culture to surau for adolescents in Minangkabau.

scholarly journals Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kustec
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Anne Hebert ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Margaret Laurence ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Diversity Of Life

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.

The wisdom of experience: Autobiographical narratives across adulthood

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith GlüCk ◽  
Susan Bluck ◽  
Jacqueline Baron ◽  
Dan P. Mcadams
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Life Decisions

This research uses an autobiographical approach to examine the relation of age to several aspects of wisdom. In Study 1 (N 1/4 86), adolescents', young adults', and older adults' wisdom narratives were content-coded for the types of life situations mentioned and the forms that wisdom took. Types of life situations reported (e.g., life decisions) were the same across age groups. Three different forms of wisdom emerged (empathy and support; self-determination and assertion; balance and flexibility) and their frequency differed with age. In Study 2, middle-aged and older adults' (N 1/4 51) autobiographical wisdom narratives were also analysed for type of situation and form of wisdom, but with the addition of two comparison life events: being foolish and having a very positive experience. Most findings replicated Study 1. Unlike Study 1, however, regardless of age, Study 2 participants largely showed the wisdom form, empathy and support. Results are discussed in terms of variations in individuals' implicit theories of wisdom as applied to their own lives.

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