TY  - JOUR
T1  - Suppressing the Mental Fright of Castration and a Creative Language of Dreams in Temma F. Berg’s “Suppressing the Language of Wo(Man): The Dream as a Common Language”
TT  - Suppressing the Mental Fright of Castration and a Creative Language of Dreams in Temma F. Berg’s “Suppressing the Language of Wo(Man): The Dream as a Common Language”
AU  - Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki
AU  - Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki
PY  - 2010
DA  - April
JF  - Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
JO  - CUJHSS
PB  - Cankaya University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 3062-0112
SP  - 569
EP  - 574
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
LA  - tr
AB  - This paper analyses Temma F. Berg’s “Suppressing the Language of Wo(Man): The Dream as a Common Language.”1 As the title suggests, Berg argues that a common language, which does not exclude either man or woman, is possible. She rereads Sigmund Freud’s conception of dreams from a Kristevan perspective and removes sexual differences in reconceptualizing the literary language. She maintains that dreams can be useful to understand the nature of such a common language that will be “fluid, nonteleological, crammed, condensed, subversive and erupting with the power of the repressed” (p.15). According to Berg, Jacques Lacan excludes the (m)other/the feminine from his ‘Symbolic Order’ and considers language as a necessarily male realm. Luce Irigaray, on the other hand, in her This Sex Which Is Not One, is fascinated with her femininity and the imaginary and is particularly concerned with feminine writing/language.2 As for Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, they are involved in women’s own subversive language including new words to express women’s experience.
KW  - Suppressing
KW  - Mental
KW  - Fright
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cankujhss/article/53086
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/45353
ER  -