The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real in Nezâmi’s “Haft Paykar”
The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real in Nezâmi’s “Haft Paykar”

Summary/Abstract: This article asserts that the poetic intensity in Nezâmi’s “Haft Paykar” is obtained from the intertwining of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real. The rhetoric of the active imagination, as it is employed in the epic poem, gives access to an imaginary world. The latter is presented as a realm of metaphysical images reflected by the senses. Moreover, it is depicted through mystical visionary narratives. The transition from the symbolic to the real implies a transformation of the being and the spirit. The symbol allows connection to another reality, as it refers to something beyond itself. In the present study, the relationship between the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real in “Haft Paykar” is examined from a psychoanalytic and, above all, Lacanian perspective.

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