Expelled from the Semiotic Bliss: A Lacanian Reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Expelled from the Semiotic Bliss: A Lacanian Reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Expelled from the Semiotic Bliss: A Lacanian Reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Pages : 138-150

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Publication Date : 2025-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The Epic of Gilgamesh, has been the focus of unmatched attention since its discovery in the second half of the nineteenth century. The epic is so richly composed that it has been the object of critique of scholars from various disciplines and has been evaluated from a wide range of different perspectives some of which are Nietzschean concept of will to power, repressed incestuous desires, the representation of the ideal friendship, the establishment of an ideal state order. However, this study focuses on the linguistic codes and signs employed in the epic that symbolically project the processes of individuation and that have been instrumentalised for the establishment and reinforcement of a certain cultural order. Interpreted under a Lacanian light, Lacanian concepts such as the semiotic, the symbolic, the Big Other and the Real can be traced as represented through the characterization and action that takes place in the text. Therefore, the main argument of this study revolves around the ways in which the codes, signs and characterizations that exist in the text fit in the conceptual framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis in terms of the individuation and culturation processes that are inextricable parts of the human condition.
Keywords : Gılgamış Destanı, Jacques Lacan, Semiyotik, Sembolik, Büyük Öteki, Gerçek

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