Mohammad Reza Pousti - M.A in English Literature

This study is concerned with Lacanian's Psycho-lingual concept for simulation in accomoaniment of Ferdinand de Saussure and Jean Baudrillard in Don DeLillo's White Noise .Lacan reshape Freudian psychiatry and suggested that unconscious is structured like a language, which gives language a key role in constructing our picture of the world, but also allows the unconscious to enter into that understanding and dissolve essential distinctions between fantasy and reality. The researcher tries to investigate Lacanian theory about language in White Noise and how is replaced reality with simulation by using language .Also, in this study researcher tries to use F.de Saussure’s and J.Baudrillard’s beliefs about how simulation works in relation of signifiers in language framework. Jack Gladney,The protagonist of the novel , and all persons around him are captured in endless chain of signifiers and signifieds and their signification is imposed unconsciously by a mysterious system to manage individuals' behavior to show that simulation is realer than real.

Simulation ,Reality ,Signifier ,Unconscious, Language