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Aпорията на Просперо: Прошка, тревожност и перверзия в „Бурята“ на Шекспир
Prospero’s Aporia: Forgiveness, Anxiety, and Perversion in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”

Author(s): Yakim Petrov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Psychology, History of Law, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: forgiveness; aporia; Lacanian psychoanalysis; anxiety; perversion

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the provocative thematization of forgiveness in Shakespeare’s final completed play. Interpreting the fractures and tensions of the main character, the study employs some of Jacques Derrida’s key ideas on the problem of forgiveness. The close reading of Prospero’s position within the economy of power and desire in “The Tempest” also outlines a conceptual field where legal theory, literature, and Lacanian psychoanalysis are intertwined. Their productive encounter discloses certain (non)written structures that regulate and direct a subject’s desire and social relations. In light of modern-day collapse of these matrices and their symbolic order, the article is a conceptual wager to resist their disappearance, albeit from a seemingly distant point of view.

  • Issue Year: 68/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 74-89
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian
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