Naslov
Witch as a double Other, or Can people communicate with the witch?

Autori
Polgar, Nataša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Body, souls, spirits and supernatural communication

Mjesto i datum
Pečuh, Mađarska, 18.05.2012. - 20.05.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Ostalo

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
symbolic; imaginary; witch; psychoanalysis

Sažetak
The psychoanalytic dimensions of the construction of witches have not been taken into account in a systematic way, although (Croatian) witch-trial records and narratives about witches would allow such analyses. I will try to show the ways in which Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic categories can be used in reading narratives and oral stories about witches, and I will also use Julia Kristeva’s highly productive term of abjection (Powers of Horror). I will try to show that the witch (seen as the Lacanian Other) may be seen as the alter ego of men, resulting from the split of the Subject. The body – soul dichotomy can be thus seen as the difference between the little other (or the specular image) and the big Other, creating a space for communication which need not be supernatural, but is rather a communication between Nature and Culture or the Imaginary and the Symbolic registers, to use Lacan’s terminology. Our focus will be on the role of these notions in the community.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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