چکیده مقاله
The present study examines Harold Pinter’s A Night Out 1959 using Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical model This study applies Lacanian theories of psychoanalysis including the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real providing an alternative understanding of Pinter’s play Suggested by Lacan, humans go through certain orders forming identity in the early years of life Acquiring the language and developing psychological aspects of personality for an infant are similar to the mental struggles the characters in Pinter’s plays experience The purpose of this study is to fill the gap of the previous studies by offering a psychoanalytical connection between Lacan and Pinter The findings of this study will show that Albert in this play is stuck in the stages of development proposed by Lacan He cannot go through the Imaginary and the Symbolic successfully as a result he is left alone, isolated and alienated Reading Lacan, we learn that we spend all our life looking for our objet petit a and trying to satisfy our desires Albert’s unfamiliar experiences will become clear when we accompany him on his psychological journey
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نویسندگان
Niloofar Ghotbi
M A student of English Literature, Khayyam University
mahdi teimoori
Faculty of Humanities, English Department of Humanities, Khayyam University
zohreh taebi noghondari
Department of English Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
شیوه ارجاع
Ghotbi, Niloofar and teimoori, mahdi and taebi noghondari, zohreh,1400,A Lacanian Study of Harold Pinter’s A Night Out,8th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and History
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