Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Professor of Persian language and literature, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
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PhD student of Persian language and literature, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
10.22054/cisl.2023.72857.1014
Abstract
Comedy and humor are among the components that are connected with the human psyche and in the field of psychoanalysis, researchers have written many works about it. Freud and, following him, Lacan, believed that the The Uncanny represented the comic Signifier. In this research, using Lacan's psychoanalytical teachings and relying on the qualitative analysis method, we have determined the relationship between the The Uncanny and the comic signifier in the story "The Previous Stroke". The clues obtained from the Lacanian analysis of this story show that, firstly, the emergence of the The Uncanny for the subject is a psychoanalytic reason for creating a comic. Secondly, the author, as a hysterical subject, has represented the lack of the other by using the comic. In the unconscious field, the author does not seek to establish the phallus, but tries to overcome it as a hysterical subject; While the narrator of the story is an obsessive psychopath who wants to possess the phallus; But his successive efforts are met with failure, and this problem creates a comic aspect in the story. Thirdly, as a subject of obsession, the narrator has never been able to achieve the phallus, and the α object has not been realized for him. Despite the efforts of the narrator, the poetry meeting is held, but the narrator sees Scum in it, which is unpleasant for him.
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