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 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.

Print Capitalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
British Colonization ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
Print Capitalism

Benedict Anderson connects the rise of print capitalism to the rise of nationalism in Europe as well as in the colonies. Print capitalism and nationalism shared a similar relationship in the Indian subcontinent too that remained a British colony for almost 200 years, from 1757 to 1947. Employing Deputy Nazir Ahmad’s novel, Mir’āt al-‘Urūs (1869), I argue that the introduction of print capitalism proved crucial to the rise of Muslim national consciousness and for Muslim women’s education to redefine their sociopolitical role in the new Muslim imagined community under British colonization. Print capitalism, via the possibility of mass-produced books like Mir’āt al-‘Urūs, transformed the Muslim national imagination by making Indian Muslims a community in anonymity. I offer this new reading of Mir’āt al-‘Urūs to trace the interaction of print capitalism, Muslim national consciousness, and new roles for Muslim women in colonial India.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Pushkin Speech in Russian Journalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-156
Author(s):  
Vladimir Viktorovich
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
History Of Journalism

The article presents a systematic analysis of the Russian press of 1880, which actively responded to Dostoevsky’s Pushkin Speech. The interpretive boom around his speech is of particular interest for the study of the formative processes of public and national consciousness in Russia. In the history of journalism, the debates that took place at that time can be equated with modern information wars. At the same time, this episode is one of the decisive ones for the ‘Dostoevsky problem’ in criticism and, more broadly, in the Russian public consciousness. The “Pushkin Speech” was obviously of a unifying nature, but it, and even more so the 1880 “A Writer’s Diary,” caused a severe split in journalism, which reflected the mindset of the Russian society. At first, there is a change of semantic accents in telegrams and correspondence, and then the key concept of "panhumanity" is presented exclusively as a “dream” in publications opposing Dostoevsky, one that is not only incompatible with reality, but also distracts from pressing socio-economic problems. There is also an expansion in meaning in the form of the notorious “messianism” of Dostoevsky. The most commonly used concept used by journalists that are hostile to the writer is mysticism as a euphemism for faith. In parallel, a different understanding of the Pushkin speech is being formed in some publications (Mysl’, Nedelya, Novoe Vremya, a little later — Rus’). It views it as a verbalization of the national idea in its focus on the panhuman as a feasible ideal. The dispute that ensued around Dostoevsky’s speech led to the self-determination of the leading trends of Russian thought.

scholarly journals HASRAT NANO RIANTIARNO DALAM CERMIN CINTA: KAJIAN PSIKOANALISIS LACANIAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Ricky Aptifive Manik
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Object A ◽  
Ego Ideal ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

Literary works known as authors’ desire manifestation.  In its history, a desire comes from the feeling of the lack of subject.  Writing a literary work becomes an effort to hide it.  The effort can be seen through an author’s point of view on ego ideal in his works.  Novel of Cermin Cinta is chosen as a sample in order to search what and how Nano Riantiarno’s desires are.  The aim is to find out the reflecting of Nano’s ego ideal.  This study uses Lacanian Psychoanalysis (PL).  Metaphor and metonymy will be used through PL in looking deeply the signs of Nano’s desire in Cermin Cinta.  This study finds out that a desire of becoming a writer and an artist has guided Nano unconsciously to other symbolic signs, such as being a ‘tough’,  ‘consistent’, ‘determined’, ‘diligent’ writer, etc. His effort in setting up a theatre community where he becomes the characters writer and director which was reached from the images of Rendra, Putu Wijaya, Arifin C. Noor, and Teguh Karya becomes his desire about the ontological intactness for his identity.  Besides, ‘Freedom’ becomes  ‘object a’ of Nano to get jouissance for himself.

scholarly journals HASRAT NANO RIANTIARNO DALAM CERMIN CINTA: KAJIAN PSIKOANALISIS LACANIAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Ricky Aptifive Manik
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Object A ◽  
Ego Ideal ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

Literary works known as authors’ desire manifestation.  In its history, a desire comes from the feeling of the lack of subject.  Writing a literary work becomes an effort to hide it.  The effort can be seen through an author’s point of view on ego ideal in his works.  Novel of Cermin Cinta is chosen as a sample in order to search what and how Nano Riantiarno’s desires are.  The aim is to find out the reflecting of Nano’s ego ideal.  This study uses Lacanian Psychoanalysis (PL).  Metaphor and metonymy will be used through PL in looking deeply the signs of Nano’s desire in Cermin Cinta.  This study finds out that a desire of becoming a writer and an artist has guided Nano unconsciously to other symbolic signs, such as being a ‘tough’,  ‘consistent’, ‘determined’, ‘diligent’ writer, etc. His effort in setting up a theatre community where he becomes the characters writer and director which was reached from the images of Rendra, Putu Wijaya, Arifin C. Noor, and Teguh Karya becomes his desire about the ontological intactness for his identity.  Besides, ‘Freedom’ becomes  ‘object a’ of Nano to get jouissance for himself.

scholarly journals Dialectics of development: teacher identity formation in the interplay of ideal ego and ego ideal

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Clarke ◽  
Michael Michell ◽  
Neville John Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Ego Ideal ◽  
Teacher Identity Formation ◽  
Ideal Ego
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