АЛХЕМИЈА СУБЈЕКТА У РОМАНУ БЕРНАРДИЈЕВА СОБА СЛОБОДАНА ТИШМЕ
ALCHEMY OF SUBJECT IN NOVEL „BERNARDI’S ROOM” BY SLOBODAN TIŠMA

Summary/Abstract: In this work we tried to show development perspectives of postmodernistic subject in the novel „Bernardi’s Room”. By using some of the adequate theories such as Derrida’s theory of difference, Lacan’s psychoanalysis and feminist views on Lacan’s heritage, we showed that author used all of these theories to create his character as just a number of subjective positions without identity. At the same time, his nostalgic desire to be identical to himself forces him to go from one identity perspective to the other, just to find that he remains a being of quest, where every position is just a sign that produces another sign and so on. These positions, named ideas, prove to be only ideological constructions created by language itself. Language is characterized as a dominant instrument of predominantly male civilization. Trying to avoid his closure into language and culture, the subject defines himself as a pure woman using a term „woman of a woman”. As Lacan defines woman as an empty place of every language meaning, that determination is actually a way to be out of it, to make difference. But exile seems impossible, so the subject is at the same time a being of culture with a metaphysical desire to be One, and a deconstructor of everything he creates in this semantic trajectory. This trajectory is a place of many signs such as Bernardi’s room (as an illusion of original modern art creation), mother (just a copy of Lacan’s Mother as a place of Unsigned) but that is a path without final accomplishment. All that remains is the process of signification.

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