scholarly journals SEKS SEBAGAI TINDAKAN RADIKAL DALAM NOVEL SAMAN KARYA AYU UTAMI/THE SEXUAL ACTION AS RADICAL ACT IN SAMAN NOVEL BY AYU UTAMI

Aksara ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Sarwo Ferdi Wibowo ◽  
Hasina Fajrin R. ◽  
Puji Retno Hardiningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Symbolic World

AbstrakElemen seksual dalam novel Saman karya Ayu Utami masih sering dijustifikasi melalui nilai-nilai kesusilaan yang merupakan bagian dari dunia simbol. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif yang membahas karya tersebut dalam perspektif psikoanalisis-historis Slavoj Žižek. Metode psikoanalisis historis digunakan untuk melihat elemen seksual dalam karya Ayu Utami secara berbeda. Data dikumpulkan melalui pembacaan secara teliti dan berulang terhadap novel Saman untuk menemukan frasa, kalimat, paragraf, dan wacana yang memuat kualitas-kualitas subjek dialektis Slavoj Žižek. Data tersebut kemudian direlasikan untuk menentukan posisi subjek sebagai subjek radikal atau sebaliknya berdasarkan konsepsi pembentukan subjek radikal Žižek, yaitu konstruksi dunia simbolik-momen kekosongan-tindakan radikal-terbentuknya subjek radikal. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tokoh dalam novel Saman, yaitu Laila dan Wisanggeni memiliki hasrat seksual yang lepas dari dominasi simbolik sehingga melakukan tindakan radikal. Melalui aktivitas seksual yang didorong hasrat yang murni tersebut, kedua tokoh tersebut memasuki momen kekosongan. Proses tersebut menyebabkan tokoh Laila dan Wisanggeni menjadi subjek radikal yang telah keluar dari dunia simbolik. Oleh karena itu, keberadaan subjek radikal dalam sebuah novel dapat dikatakan sebagai sebuah retakan dunia simbolik seksualitas yang secara ontologis konsisten. Kata kunci: seksualitas, tindakan radikal, psikoanalisis-historis  Abstract The sexual element in “Saman” by Ayu Utami frequently is justified by the value of decency which becomes a part of the symbolic world. This study is descriptive research that discusses the novel from Slavoj Žižek’s historical-psychoanalysis perspective. The historical-psychoanalysis method consents to uncover the sexual element in the novel by Ayu Utami differently. Data collected through reading carefully and respectively of Saman novel are done to find out the phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and discourses that contain qualities of Slavoj Žižek’s dialectic subject. Collected data are then related to determining subject position as the radical subject or otherwise considering the construction of the symbolic world-ex nihilio- radical act-radical subject. The result of this research reveals that Laila and Wisanggeni characters in the novel of Saman have a sexual desire separated from symbolic dominance, and its practice becomes a radical act. Through sexual activity driven by passion, they enter the moment of the void. The process caused the figure of Laila and Wisanggeni to be a radical subject that has been out of the symbolic world. Therefore, the existence of a radical subject in a novel can be said to be a maligned symbolic world of sexuality ontologically consistent. Keywords: sexuality, radical act, historical-psychoanalysis 

Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Jerrold E. Hogle
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Do So

Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection in Powers of Horror (1980) has had a profound effect on the analysis of Gothic works. Building on Freud, Lacan, and others, it posits a "throwing over" of the deepest anomalies at the roots of human being - the inseparable intermingling of life and death and self and other at the moment of birth - into what seems an alien, other figure (the 'abject', such as Frankenstein's creature) so that the abjecting subject can construct a wholeness of consistent identity over against it. This process, as Slavoj Zizek has emphasized, is even a socio-cultural one, whereby populations abject underlying social conflicts into supposedly alien others. The abject figures in many Gothic works, then, are fear-inducting sites prompting terror or horror because they enact this scheme. In fact, they do so because the whole idea of abjection hearkens back to the very nature of Gothic symbol-making from Horace Walpole on.

Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Sublime

Starting from a passage from Slavoj Žižek`s brilliant book The Sublime Object of Ideology, the very passage on canned laughter that gave such precious support for the development of the theory of interpassivity, this chapter examines a question that has proved indispensable for the study of interpassivity: namely, what does it mean for a theory to proceed by examples? What is the specific role of the example in certain example-friendly theories, for example in Žižek’s philosophy?

Slavoj Žižek

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Kang Kim ◽  
Ansgar Lorenz ◽  
Ansgar Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Ivan Cankar’s National Narrative and Its Role in the Formation of the Slovenian Cultural Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Anna G. Bodrova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject

Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), who occupies an honorable place in the Slovenian cultural canon, once changed the course of development of Slovenian literature and influenced the formation of national identity. The national narrative of Cankar was based on contradictions: living far from his people, he sometimes glorified them and sometimes attacked them with heavy criticism; he correlated his homeland with his mother, the mother though being dead. Cankar’s concentration on the subject of mother and homeland is interpreted here in the framework of psychoanalysis. Following Slavoj Žižek, the author develops the idea that it was the mother who became the Symbolic Order representative or Super-Ego for the writer. The concept of “Cankar’s mother”, which became a symbol of self-sacrifice and at the same time repressiveness in the Slovenian cultural space, is considered.

L’absence chez Michel Butor. L’Emploi du temps et Degrés

2012 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Michał Mrozowicki
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Michel Butor ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
The City

Michel Butor, born in 1926, one of the leaders of the French New Novel movement, has written only four novels between 1954 and 1960. The most famous of them is La Modification (Second thoughts), published in 1957. The author of the paper analyzes two other Butor’s novels: L’Emploi du temps (Passing time) – 1956, and Degrés (Degrees) – 1960. The theme of absence is crucial in both of them. In the former, the novel, presented as the diary of Jacques Revel, a young Frenchman spending a year in Bleston (a fictitious English city vaguely similar to Manchester), describes the narrator’s struggle to survive in a double – spatial and temporal – labyrinth. The first of them, formed by Bleston’s streets, squares and parks, is symbolized by the City plan. During his one year sojourn in the city, using its plan, Revel learns patiently how to move in its different districts, and in its strange labyrinth – strange because devoid any centre – that at the end stops annoying him. The other, the temporal one, symbolized by the diary itself, the labyrinth of the human memory, discovered by the narrator rather lately, somewhere in the middle of the year passed in Bleston, becomes, by contrast, more and more dense and complex, which is reflected by an increasinly complex narration used to describe the past. However, at the moment Revel is leaving the city, he is still unable to recall and to describe the events of the 29th of February 1952. This gap, this absence, symbolizes his defeat as the narrator, and, in the same time, the human memory’s limits. In Degrees temporal and spatial structures are also very important. This time round, however, the problems of the narration itself, become predominant. Considered from this point of view, the novel announces Gerard Genette’s work Narrative Discourse and his theoretical discussion of two narratological categories: narrative voice and narrative mode. Having transgressed his narrative competences, Pierre Vernier, the narrator of the first and the second parts of the novel, who, taking as a starting point, a complete account of one hour at school, tries to describe the whole world and various aspects of the human civilization for the benefit of his nephew, Pierre Eller, must fail and disappear, as the narrator, from the third part, which is narrated by another narrator, less audacious and more credible.

scholarly journals Towards Solving Health Inequities: A Method to Identify Ideological Operation in Global Health Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4393
Author(s):  
Hani Kim ◽  
Uros Novakovic
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Recurrent Nature

The function of ideology is to naturalize and maintain unequal relations of power. Making visible how ideology operates is necessary for solving health inequities grounded in inequities of resources and power. However, discerning ideology is difficult because it operates implicitly. It is not necessarily explicit in one’s stated aims or beliefs. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek conceptualizes ideology as a belief in overarching unity or harmony that obfuscates immanent tension within a system. Drawing from Žižek’s conceptualization of ideology, we identify what may be considered as ‘symptoms’ of ideological practice: (1) the recurrent nature of a problem, and (2) the implicit externalization of the cause. Our aim is to illustrate a method to identify ideological operation in health programs on the basis of its symptoms, using three case studies of persistent global health problems: inequitable access to vaccines, antimicrobial resistance, and health inequities across racialized communities. Our proposed approach for identifying ideology allows one to identify ideological practices that could not be identified by particular ideological contents. It also safeguards us from an illusory search for an emancipatory content. Critiquing ideology in general reveals possibilities that are otherwise kept invisible and unimaginable, and may help us solve recalcitrant problems such as health inequities.

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