The Lost Body: The Uncanny Other in Shakespeare and Aeschylus
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The main aim of this paper is to analyze the epistemological implication of the female body, and show how the discourse of the epistemological other overlaps with colonial discourse in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Aeschylus’s The Persians(Περσαι), and what difference or similarity there is between the two ages. For this purpose, I try to grasp the concept of the epistemological other ‘within’ and analyze the core of colonial discourse on the basis of it. In the process of inquiring into the ‘overlapping’ of the other and the colonial imagination, this paper focuses on the fact that the cultural, political other is the peripheral disclosure of the epistemological other ‘within.’ Shakespeare’s Egypt juxtaposed with Aeschylus’ Persia works as a metaphor of lost body arising from the Narcissistic myth of epistemological otherness ‘within.’ The other is the lost body ‘within,’ that is, our own unconscious. In the process of the pursuit for the lost body, ironically enough, the more he desires, the more anxious he becomes. The female other is the desired lost body and the uncanny other at the same time—desirable but uncanny.
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paper is to analyze the epistemological implication of the female body, and show how the discourse of the epistemological other overlaps with colonial discourse in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Aeschylus’s The Persians(Περσαι), and what difference or similarity there is between the two ages. For this purpose, I try to grasp the concept of the epistemological other ‘within’ and analyze the core of colonial discourse on the basis of it. In the process of inquiring into the ‘overlapping’ of the other and the colonial imagination, this paper focuses on the fact that the cultural, political other is the peripheral disclosure of the epistemological other ‘within.’ Shakespeare’s Egypt juxtaposed with Aeschylus’ Persia works as a metaphor of lost body arising from the Narcissistic myth of epistemological otherness ‘within.’ The other is the lost body ‘within,’ that is, our own unconscious. In the process of the pursuit for the lost body, ironically enough, the more he desires, the more anxious he becomes. The female other is the desired lost body and the uncanny other at the same time—desirable but uncanny.
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