A Lacanian Reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Khozooi ◽  
Razieh Eslamieh
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Way

The present paper compares Lacanian Psychoanalytic Orders in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. Imaginary Order and Symbolic Order are basic notions studied as a path to a better understanding of the poems. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Ancient Mariner has not entered the realm of the Symbolic Order completely and it can be claimed he still partly lives in the Imaginary Order. Despite the fact that the two poems are different in narrative and character development, some similarities are revealed in the way the main characters pass the Orders and form their final individuality. Both Christabel and the Mariner have connections with Imaginary Order which has hindered their complete transition to the Symbolic Order. However, some events loosen their bonds with this Order and cause their complete transition to the Symbolic Order. 

Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the “New Psychology” in John Barrymore’s “Unstable” Characters

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Michael Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
The Way

John Barrymore’s 1922 Hamlet introduced Freudian interpretation as a means of character development into American acting. It also provided Barrymore with a screen star persona that based his acting virtuosity on portraying unstable characters. This chapter explores the way his star persona was articulated through the production and reception of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and then in The Mad Genius (1931) a decade later.

Religion-State Relations in Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 250-267
Author(s):  
John T. S. Madeley
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
European Model ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Massive Change ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
State Relations ◽  
State Separation ◽  
The Way

Europe is often taken to represent a global exception in matters of religion and secularity and some argue that much of the reason for this lies in the way religion-state relations are arranged. This chapter assesses these and related claims while summarily tracing the character, development, and impact of different relationship patterns in Europe as both ‘religion’ and ‘state’ have undergone massive change over the last 500 years. None of the fifty-odd current states of Europe meet any strict standard of religion–state separation; it can be argued nonetheless that the emergent and identifiable common European model is largely consistent with liberal egalitarian values. Key concepts are introduced: secular state, confessional state, religious state, religious establishment, and separationism.

scholarly journals Second hand — rzecz między starym a nowym życiem

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Adrianna Michno
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Cyclic Life ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
The Way

Second-hand: A thing between new and old lifeThe article presents the issue of second-hand clothes and their lives in a store space. The aim is to show the perspective of things, not their users, so there is an attempt to make a typology of second-hand clothes by qualities which are located in them. Marek Krajewski’s relational concept of participation in culture, because of its including character — both humans and things — in the network of relations, allows us not only to ask questions about things’ life but also to present the way of choosing them by senses. However, their space’s impurity can be shown in symbolic order, which is why second-hand shops can be surely treated as a stop in their further, cyclic life.

Motherhood in France: Towards a Queer Maternity?

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2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Power
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
The State ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Maternal Status ◽  
The Way

This article examines the relationship between feminism, queer theory and the rise of popular debate over maternity and anti-maternity that has arisen in recent years in France. Through the image of ‘queer maternity’, that is to say, of women who question motherhood from the position of already having had children, the article tries to rethink the way in which feminism, queer theory and motherhood could be placed in relation to one another such that by questioning maternity, the symbolic order that places motherhood on the side of the state and futurity can itself be questioned as a whole. This has particular resonances in the French context where a discourse of ‘natural’ motherhood has come to dominate: the ‘queer’ mother who questions her maternal status is thus argued to represent a threat to the futurity of the family, the social contract and the existing order.

scholarly journals House of Memories and Oblivion by Filip David: Literature, Memory and Death

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-258
Author(s):  
Časlav V. Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way

The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David’s novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War II considering the fate of Jewish people in this war. The attempt to highlight the work and the way of Western civilization to define itself in respect of the Holocaust was made. David’s novel is an example of a literary text which tests the boundaries of narrative regarding life of those who survived the Holocaust and tryed to find their identity. Literary discourse also allows to search for the truth about the crime in the gaps of the symbolic order of our world.

scholarly journals ‘(S)extremism’: Imagining Violent Women in the Twenty-First Century with Navine G. Khan-Dossos and Julia Kristeva

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2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Lisa Downing
Keyword(s):  
Biological Function ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
First Century ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

The neologism ‘(s)extremism’ indicates a nexus of ideas intrinsic to the way in which contemporary culture imagines the figure of the violent woman. First, it identifies the sexism visible in reactions to such women; secondly, it highlights the fact that these misogynistic responses are often predicated precisely on sex (i.e. on assumptions about woman's biological function), not (only) on gender; thirdly, it highlights the question mark that hovers over the issue of what extremism is — especially when applied to women. To examine and theorize these ideas, the article moves beyond existing works in critical terrorism studies and looks to research-informed art installations by international artist Navine G. Khan-Dossos, with whom the author has collaborated, and to the writings of Julia Kristeva who explores the link between female ‘extremism’ and ‘exceptionality’, and describes how feminism itself is constituted with regard to the socio-symbolic order as a form of terroristic violence.

scholarly journals EFL Teachers’ Perception and Strategies for Integrating Character Education into the Lesson

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Julia Eka Putri ◽  
Luh Putu Artini ◽  
Luh Gede Eka Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Character Development ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Education Concept ◽  
The Way

The recent phenomena of moral degradation of Indonesian youth are responded by policy in moral and character education. Character education in schools is included in the curriculum and it must be integrated into the subjects matter. This study aims at investigating how English teachers perceive character education in the context of teaching English as well as the strategies in inserting character education into the lesson by conducting explanatory sequential mixed method design. The participants of this study were seventh and eighth grade English teachers in SMPN 6 Singaraja. The data were collected by means of questionnaire, observation sheet, and interview guide. As the result, this study revealed that English teachers had sufficient knowledge of Character Education concept. The way they implemented the character education did not really represent how character education should be inserted. Furthermore, they also were not sure of its impact to the students’ character development. It indicates that they had lack understanding of character education and the implementation of character education. The way English teachers integrate character education into further learning is discussed in a research discussion. Furthermore, enriching their knowledge of the character education should be the first step done.

scholarly journals Significance of Educative Environment to the Character Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Miftachul Huda ◽  
Mulyadhi Kartanegara
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Character Development ◽  
External Factor ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
The Way

Some factors pertainning to the formation of human character in the field of education are influenced by the divergent means. One of them, as the external factor, includes the environment on how to make a conducive circumstance both selecting the partners and choosing the educators. In addition, the ultimate aim of this study is a rediscovery effort on educational thought of al-Zarnûjî in his book Ta’lim al-Muta’allim, the monumental work containning the fundamental principles in education, which has been used in the Muslim world in the context of the role in the formation of character development. The approach used to investigate is a descritiptive analysis to find out the possibility of application of the character development. This study discovers that al-Zarnûjîs idea, particularly on the significant role in performing the process of character development is through well conducive circumstance. It indicates that the way in choosing both partners and educators, where both of them should interact with, has the fundamental impact, namely for encouragement, empowerement, enhancement and refinement. Finally, this study is highly supposed to enrich the concept of character education, particularly in the educative environment for the character development, as the significant role in the process of education.

Reading Habits in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Ana Voicu
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Narrative Development ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
The Way

"Reading Habits in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. This article focuses on the way Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey’s heroine, is influenced and even guided by the literature she either chooses or is given to read. Her reading habits, as well as her changing typologies as a reader, influence both the development of her character and the narrative. This study also debunks the idea that Northanger Abbey is a parody of Gothic fiction, contextualizing book reading in an age when the novel was yet to be considered a respectable literary genre. Keywords: wise reader, the avid reader, the hypocritical reader, character development, narrative development, Gothic fiction, novel theory"

scholarly journals Althusserian Reading of The Handmaid’s Tale

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Maryam Moradi ◽  
Fatemeh AzizMohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Null Result ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

Louis Althusser (1918-1990) builds on the work of Jacques Lacan to understand the way ideology functions in society. He thus moves away from the earlier Marxist understanding of ideology. In the earlier model, ideology was believed to create what was termed ‘false consciousness’, a false understanding of the way the world functioned. Althusser explains that for Marx “Ideology is [...] thought as an imaginary construction whose status is exactly like the theoretical status of the dream among writers before Freud. For those writers, the dream was the purely imaginary, i.e. null, result of the 'day's residues” (1971:108). Althusser, by contrast, approximates ideology to Lacan's understanding of reality, the world we construct around us after our entrance into the symbolic order. For Althusser, as for Lacan, it is impossible to access the real conditions of existence due to our reliance on language. This could be seen throughout the novel by Margaret Atwood who writes The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) based on the concept of ideology. This is about how the heroine of the story and other women in the society are manipulated by the ideology of ruling class through a communist society. In such a world nothing is real and everything is just an illusion that is made by ruling class. The subjects trapped or forced to believe such misconceptions and unreality through different techniques that are employed by the rulers. The dominant forces and ideology are so strong that the subject at the end gets a new identity since she is required unconsciously without her knowing. The other aspect shown by this novel is the failure of revolution and communism in this society and persistence of capitalism that it never disappears.

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