Traumatic (missed) Encounter with the Real: Lacanian Approach to Stoker’s Dracula
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Most psychoanalytic criticism of Dracula by Dracula has been exclusively fixated on examining Dracula the vampire as a sexual metaphor. Dracula, however, can be most adequately explained in terms of trauma whose nature is expounded in connection with Lacanian tuchè, “encounter with the Real”. The main characteristic of trauma is “incomprehensibility” because it resists integration into consciousness, full knowledge, and representation. Trauma, in this respect, is “one of the faces of the real” which goes “beyond the symbolic order”, and thus remains unnamable. Dracula whose memory cannot be consciously recovered by his victims, resisting its containment within human discourse (Lacanian “Symbolic order”) belongs to Lacanian “Real”. That is, Dracula is a figure of trauma which urges us to waken into Lacanian Real by making us repeatedly confront it. Dracula, however, cannot be encountered because he always “ex-ists” as an absent presence, as suggested by the absence of the proof of his existence. In short, the encounter with Dracula is always missed, just as the encounter with Lacanian Real is inevitably missed/ unrepresentable.
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Most psychoanalytic criticism of Dracula by Dracula has been exclusively fixated on examining Dracula the vampire as a sexual metaphor. Dracula, however, can be most adequately explained in terms of trauma whose nature is expounded in connection with Lacanian tuchè, “encounter with the Real”. The main characteristic of trauma is “incomprehensibility” because it resists integration into consciousness, full knowledge, and representation. Trauma, in this respect, is “one of the faces of the real” which goes “beyond the symbolic order”, and thus remains unnamable. Dracula whose memory cannot be consciously recovered by his victims, resisting its containment within human discourse (Lacanian “Symbolic order”) belongs to Lacanian “Real”. That is, Dracula is a figure of trauma which urges us to waken into Lacanian Real by making us repeatedly confront it. Dracula, however, cannot be encountered because he always “ex-ists” as an absent presence, as suggested by the absence of the proof of his existence. In short, the encounter with Dracula is always missed, just as the encounter with Lacanian Real is inevitably missed/ unrepresentable.
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