LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
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W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
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Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
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Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his paper titled Mirror Stage (1949), Lacan expounds the concept of the mirror stage that occurs between 6-18 months of a child’s development, when the child begins to draw rudimentary distinction between the self and the other, as it encounters its image in the mirror.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mirror stage, Lacan also hypothesized, shows that the Ego is the product of misunderstanding – Lacan’s term “méconnaissance” implies a false recognition. Additionally, the mirror stage is where the subject becomes alienated from itself, and thus is introduced into the Imaginary order.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Lacan, there is simply no recognisable self that exists prior to or outside of the Symbolic realm; rather, what exists is an ensemble of unmediated desires that are given form and substance through submission to the discursive logic of the Symbolic order through identification with the subject.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Real. This concept marks the state of nature from which we have been forever severed by our entrance into language. The Imaginary Order. The Symbolic Order (or the “big Other").