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Showing 2 results for Sadegh Hedayat
Asad Abshirini,
Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
Abstract
The narrative of The Blind Owl (Buf-e Kur) goes through scattered “writings” in which the “painter” narrator, in captivity from the burden of his “wall of the house” shoulders through the entire story and tells the “swallowing shadow” of himself. It is only in the first part of The Blind Owl that the “ethereal girl” “manifests” through the “ventilation hole” of the closet of the same “house” which is located “on the other side of the ditch”. In the present study, the psychoanalytic theories of the French Jacques Lacan, of which language-centeredness is also one of the basic premises, are effective tools that pave the way for reflection on the linguistic aspects and related symbols in The Blind Owl. What explanation Lacan’s “The Real” provides for the progress of the plot of this modern story as well as how the result of such a view sheds light on the interpretive nature of The Blind Owl and its prosaic aspects constitute the author’s concerns.
Phd Vida Dastmalchi,
Volume 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
In the series of research and psychological criticism of Sadegh Hedayat’s works, the issue of the evil mother among his various fictional characters deserves a separate study. The term “evil mother” derives from the dual aspect of the mother’s archetype in mythological psychology, which has been applied to the realm of humanities studies by the theories of Freud and Jung and their students. Hedayat depicted the evil mother and the consequences of her presence in the lives of the main characters of his stories in the novel Buf-e-kur (The Blind Owl) with the fluid character of the narrator’s mother (narrator’s aunt / narrator’s aunt’s daughter), in the short story Se ghatre khun (three drops of blood) with the character of Rokhsareh (evil woman), in Abji Khanom (Mrs. Abji), with the character of Abji’s mother, in Zani ke mardash ra gom kard (the woman who lost her husband) with the character of Zarrin Kolah’s mother and Zarrin Kolah herself, and in his two unpublished stories with the characters of the mother of the spider and the mother of the murdered man. Adopting a descriptive-analytical method, the present article investigates the power of the evil mother’s influence on the tragic fate of the characters in Hedayat’s works (mother complex, psychosis, suicide, homicide). The findings indicated that there are symbols with the supporting role of the evil mother in Hedayat’s stories. Hence, the influence of the evil mother in the lives of the main characters is predictable i.e., confrontation with the mother, psychosis, suicide and homicide are repeated fates of characters in these stories.
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