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Ali Sheikh Mahdi; Nazanin Honarkhah
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Jacques Lacan, influenced by Freidrich Hegel, registered dialectic of Master and Slave into psychoanalytic discourses. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, commonly known, is considered the science that examines the impact of unconscious actions, searching for signs of disease. Over time, psychoanalysis has ...
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Jacques Lacan, influenced by Freidrich Hegel, registered dialectic of Master and Slave into psychoanalytic discourses. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, commonly known, is considered the science that examines the impact of unconscious actions, searching for signs of disease. Over time, psychoanalysis has been concerned with various sciences such as philosophy. One subject of dialectic of master and slave is linked with the analyst raised earlier by Hegel. The current paper aims to examine this theory through analysis of the relationships between four pair characters presented in Asghar Farhadi's film, About Elly (2009), using a qualitative research method. The data were collected by the film's observation and library sources, then its content was analyzed based on interpretive phenomenological analysis with a psychoanalytical approach mainly inspired by Freudian school. The first mode of such master-slavery contradictory is formed by Sepideh-Amir relationship, in which both of them are in struggle for power. The second mode is formed by Nazi-Manouchehr relationship, in which Nazi (female) is Master and Manouchehr (male) is in Slave status. The third mode is formed by Shohreh-Peyman relationship, in which the female figure confirms power of the other, as she is a slave, but at the same time she pretends to be the master herself. Finally, the last mode is formed by Elly-Ahmad relationship, in which both sides have tendency to be slave. The findings show that the master-slave dialectic, present in Iranian patriarchic society, is represented in defensive psychological processes of characters in Farhadi's film.
Art
Forough Khabiri; Ali Sheikh Mehdi
Abstract
This study concerns to analyze femininity identity by psychoanalysis approach of Lacan. Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most areas of debate within feminist artists. The main question of this research is: “How does video art show the femininity identity?” So, initially we tried to ...
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This study concerns to analyze femininity identity by psychoanalysis approach of Lacan. Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most areas of debate within feminist artists. The main question of this research is: “How does video art show the femininity identity?” So, initially we tried to categorize different influential concepts of Lacan’s psychoanalysis which is necessary to get to know his attitude about gender. Video art is one of the new media arts born after World War II. Video is a medium which come to challenge other media in different subjects. In this research, we have explained how video art has tried to show the femininity identity in contrast with the other media like cinema and television. The main concern of this study is exploring the ways in which female identity is constructed and mediated through the art of video art. Therefore, some videos have been analyzed according to Lacan's theory. In this way, a women video artist Pipilotti Rist (1962) has been selected. Rist made lots of works about the female body by concentrating on color and sound. I'm not the girl who misses much, Ever is over all, I couldn't agree with you more and Be nice to me are the videos analyzed by Lacan theory about gender identity in the article. By analyzing her, it can be known that video art changes the position of women and it changes the language and structures of dominant display.
