“The Country of the Blind” by Wells: The Author of Deconstruction

_ Well’s story, “The Country of the Blind” depicts a “reversed” relationship between the sightedness and blindness. In the country…

Trauma in Freud and in Lacan

_ The word “trauma” is etymologically linked to the Greek word “wound”. It is derived from the verb which means…

Kafka’s "The Judgment": Psychoanalysis & Deconstruction

_ In Kafka’s story, “The Judgment”, once can determine the one who judges and the one who is judged by…

Waiting for Godot as a "Text of Jouissance"

_ The term “Theater of the Absurd” was coined by Martin Esslin in his book “The Theatre of the Absurd”…

"The Purloined Letter" – Literary Blindness

_ Poe’s The Purloined Letter is a story whose plot revolves around the acts of seeing and not seeing. Hence…

Reading as a Voluntary Blindness?

_ Pritchett’s “Blind Love” metaphorically displays the idea of “concretization” of a literary text against which deconstruction reacts. Deconstruction refers…

Catastrophe of Language in "Herland" and "The Left Hand of Darkness"

_ Literature can function as a sphere in which one can illustrate solutions or alternative notions against the discourses to…

Brecht – Verfremdungseffekt – Psychoanalysis

_ While discussing the war, Mother Courage asks: “Then don’t you think the war might end?” She is talking to…

Letter from Gilman’s "Herland"

Dear Friend, _ I know that you waited for so long to hear from me. It has been a week…