Critical Language and Literary studies

The Uncanny History and Unrepresentability of Subject formation in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Roya Elahi; Amirali Nojoumian

Volume 14, Issue 19 , October 2018, , Pages 33-55

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The Uncanny whose presence at least refers back to Freud's 1919 essay of the same title has been reconsidered by critics in recent century. The uncanny is no more attributed merely to the realm of aesthetic or psychology as Freud attempted to explain. It is rather an interdisciplinary issue to discuss ... Read More

The Emergence of the Image and its Transfiguration on the Language in the Freudian Dream and the Bachelardian Reverie

Zahra TaghaviFardoud

Volume 12, Issue 16 , April 2016, , Pages 71-83

Abstract

For Freud, the literary work is like a dream, a burst of the psyche of its author. Plunged into literary work, he discovers the internal knots concerning the author's past. He discovers in the afterlife of the second self the author who appears in the work, his true self that touches life in flesh ... Read More For Freud, the literary work is like a dream, a burst of the psyche of its author. Plunged into literary work, he discovers the internal knots concerning the author's past. He discovers in the afterlife of the second self the author who appears in the work, his true self that touches life in flesh and blood. Bachelardian psychoanalysis is linked not with unconsciousness but with the awakening, consciousness and psychic coherence of the dreamer who creates the work. Reverie gives the dreamer the possibility of producing the image in the moment. Thus, contrary to the petrified image of Freud represented in the dream, the Bachelardian image is dynamic, spontaneous, and cut off from the past. Since the images of reverie appear at the moment as they are, the word ontology finds its own meaning. Moreover, Bachelard's reference to psychoanalytic methods plays a large role in obtaining objective knowledge. In Bachelardian reverie, mind, consciousness and imagination are centered on the material world. This is the reason why the problem of Phenomenology is involved. The penetration into the center of the material world will activate the soul and heart of the artist, sending the images directly into his consciousness. Such a splendor of image in all its purity requires a subject that leaves presuppositions, entering by freedom of expression into a new world, and thus representing this novelty in a new verbal form. Undoubtedly, unexpected characteristics of the pure image have no meaning in psychoanalytic science which is in search of the repressed events of the past. The contradiction between the causality of the Freudian image and the ontology of the Bachelardian image requires different reading practices. Bachelard's method is based on a careful reading of the works, for identification with the creative reverie of the author at the moment when he created his work. The Freudian reader intends to unveil the work to discover the pass of its author.

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The Uncanny History and Unrepresentability of Subject formation in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

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The Emergence of the Image and its Transfiguration on the Language in the Freudian Dream and the Bachelardian Reverie

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