نوع مقاله : پژوهشی -نظری اصیل
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This study employs the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan—specifically the triadic model of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real—to analyze the subject in two novels by Reza Ghassemi: The Well of Babel and The Spell of the Lambs. Utilizing a descriptive-analytical method and an interdisciplinary approach (literature-psychoanalysis), it examines the mechanisms of identity formation, disintegration, and suspension in the migrant characters of these works. The findings reveal that both novels represent the Lacanian subject as a "split," "alienated-in-language" being, grappling with a fundamental lack. In The Well of Babel, Mando becomes trapped within the Symbolic order of both Iranian society and the rejecting society of Paris through the self-destructive jouissance of his singing and his attachment to an unattainable object of desire (Felicia). His eventual blindness objectifies the intrusion of the Real and the collapse of the Symbolic realm. In The Spell of the Lambs, the migrant narrator is confronted with three conflicting discourses as manifestations of the "big Other," whose voices intensify his identity crisis in the form of a "whirlwind in the chest." The fantasy of returning to the womb and the illusion of mastery within the hospital function as defense mechanisms against the threat of the Real (blindness). By connecting key Lacanian concepts with narratives of migration, this research offers a novel model for analyzing contemporary Iranian fiction and demonstrates that the identity crisis in these works is not merely a product of physical displacement but is the structural consequence of an "imprisonment in language"
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