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"I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR": LACANIAN DESIRE IN THEODORE DREISER'S SISTER CARRIE

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  • İstanbul Üniversitesi LITERA, Journal of Western Languages and Literatures

Publication Year:

  • 2008
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Abstract (2. Language): 
The growing ascendancy of the natural sciences in Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century had its repercussions in two different domains, namely in psychoanalysis and literary naturalism. While Sigmund Freud incorporated this ascendancy into his method as his biological discourse in laying the foundations of his emergent psychoanalytic methodology, Emile Zola applied these scientific principles and methods to literature in delineating the defining precepts of literary naturalism. Likewise, Theodore Dreiser, one of the foremost exponents of literary naturalism in the United States, applied these precepts (such as the influence of the external forces on the human being and heredity) to his novels and characters with strict adherence to the biological findings and determinism of his era. Discussing the influence of the natural sciences in Dreiser's naturalistic discourse with reference to his psychological analyses in Sister Carrie and emphasizing their parallelism with Freud's scientific approach, this paper ultimately aims to provide a psychoanalytic reinterpretation of the concept of 'desire' in Dresier's novel from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory while underlining the "culturalist" turn in psychoanalysis instigated by Jacques Lacan.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Doğa bilimlerinin 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında Avrupa'nın ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin düşünce dünyasındaki konumlarının giderek merkezî hale gelmesi ile birlikte, hem bu bilimlerin hem de bilimsel yöntemin kültürün diğer alanlarına yansıyan etkileri son derece belirginleşmiştir. Sigmund Freud'un kurucusu olduğu psikanaliz kuramında yer alan dönemin biyoloji ve fizik bulguları ile Emile Zola'nın düşünsel zeminini oluşturduğu yazınsal doğalcılık akımı içinde yer bulan soyaçekim ve evrim gibi kavramlar, bu etkinin iki farklı alanda yansımasına örnek oluşturur. Bu makalenin amacı, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri yazınında doğalcılığın en önemli temsilcilerinden sayılan Théodore Dreiser'ın Sister Carrie adlı romanındaki temel kavramlardan biri olan 'arzu' kavramını; yazarın, Freud'un kuramındaki bilimsellik çabasına benzer şekilde ve psikolojik bulgulara da dayanarak yazın içinde ele alma çabasını göstererek, bu kavramı, psikanalizde kültür odaklı bir kurama yönelişi temsil eden Fransız psikanalist ve kuramcı Jacques Lacan'ın yaklaşımı çerçevesinde yeniden yorumlamaktır.
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