CHRISTINA ROSSETTI’NİN CİN PAZARI ŞİİRİNDE ÖZNELEŞME SÜRECİ: LACANCI PSİKANALİTİK BİR YAKLAŞIM

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Bu makale, Christina Rossetti’nin 1862 tarihli anlatı şiiri Cin Pazarı’nı Lacancı psikanalitik kuram çerçevesinde incelemekte ve şiirdeki özneleşme sürecini, imgesel düzen ve simgesel düzen arasındaki dinamik ilişki üzerinden analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Lacan’ın dil ve öteki merkezli özneleşme kuramı, şiirin başlıca karakterleri olan Lizzie ve Laura aracılığıyla alegorik olarak temsil edilir. İki kız kardeşin cin pazarındaki deneyimleri, imgeselin temelini oluşturan bütünlük yanılsamasının sarsıldığı ve simgesel düzenin belirişiyle arzularının artık dilin ve toplumsal yasaların etkisi altında konumlandığını açığa çıkaran bir kırılma anı olarak okunabilir. Bu deneyim, özneleşmenin eksiklik ve arzu üzerine kurulu yapısını açığa çıkarırken, şiirin sonunda kardeşlerin toplumsal düzenin normatif rollerini içselleştirerek bu düzenin söylemini çocuklarına aktarmaları, onların simgesel düzenin kendilerine biçtiği rolleri ve konumları benimsemiş özneler hâline geldiklerini gösterir. Bu bağlamda, Rossetti’nin Cin Pazarı, Lacancı özne kuramına güçlü bir edebi zemin sunmakta ve özneleşme sürecinin söylemsel ve toplumsal yapılarla nasıl koşullandığını ortaya koymaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Christina Rossetti
• Cin Pazarı
• Jacques Lacan
• Psikanalitik kuram
• Özneleşme

THE TRAJECTORY OF SUBJECT FORMATION IN CHRISTINA ROSSETTI’S GOBLIN MARKET: A LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

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This article examines Christina Rossetti’s 1862 narrative poem Goblin Market within the framework of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and aims to analyze the process of subject formation in the poem through the dynamic relationship between the imaginary and the symbolic order. Lacan’s theory of subject formation, centered on language and the other, is allegorically represented through the poem’s main characters, Lizzie and Laura. The two sisters’ experiences in the goblin market can be read as a breaking point in which the illusion of unity that characterizes the imaginary is shaken, and the emergence of the symbolic order reveals that their desires are now configured under the influence of language and social norms. While this experience reveals subject formation as structured around lack and desire, the sisters’ internalization of the normative roles of the social order at the end of the poem, together with their reproduction of its discourse through their children, indicates that they have become subjects who have assumed the roles and positions assigned to them by the symbolic order. In this respect, Rossetti’s Goblin Market offers a strong literary basis for Lacanian subject theory and illustrates how the trajectory of subject formation is conditioned by discursive and social structures.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Christina Rossetti
• The Goblin Market
• Jacques Lacan
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Subject formation

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