Lacan in Literature and Film: A Closer Look at the Format...
Birlik, Nurten
The authors give a Lacanian hearing to Pinter's characters in "The Homecoming” as these characters could not go through the processes of language properly, subverted the Lacanian developmental orders, and thus are victimised by language. Now they are denied any access to the Symbolic Order, they live in and can "be” only in the margins of it. The study problematises and lays out the elusive and complex nature of these characters, and the ontol...