A Lacanian Study of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

This study investigates the Lacanian study of Gulliver's Travels. Swift employed devastating images, such as the infant, to undermine man's pride. This study deals with the unconscious and the infantile in Gulliver's Travels. The infantile/unconscious is critical (in satire and psychoanalysis) to decoding our shame, pride, desires, and language. Gulliver is a signifier of man and of the ego and the ego/self, the mirror and narcissism are examined. The mirror stage (۶-۳۱ months) provides the individual with an external view of the self. The self becomes the center of a signifying network of words and images. There is a fusion of language, identity, and desire (narcissism). The sliding of signifiers into one another reflects the primitive linguistics of the unconscious. Language is also the functioning, ordered system of consciousness.

کلیدواژه ها:

Gulliver's Travels ، Lacanian study ، the mirror stage ، desire ، the symbolic