‘Self’ and ‘Other’: A Psychoanalytic Study of The Shadow Lines

Name of Author : P. Parthiban

Abstract: Jacques Lacan, the renowned French psychoanalyst achieved a significant place in the literary critical canon primarily for the deconstruction of the Saussure?s concept of the sign. According to Lacan, it is the signifiers that composed the language and not the sign for which the meaning of the word changes over time. Lacan further says that language is made up of words which he technically calls them as signifiers. Lacan, in the postmodern period, formulated the theory of psyche or mind, structured exactly like a language, in which he draws the three stages of the human psyche, the imaginary, the symbolic and the real, in other words, need, demand and desire.

Keywords : Characters in diaspora novels often feel

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