Civilization and culture are two prominent themes in Leavis’s seminal essay “Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture” published in 1930. The prominent themes of this essay include the understanding of the mode of civilization and the culture as found in England…
Raymond Williams is a renowned British critic. He is also widely known as an academician and a novelist. His “The Analysis of Culture” is a very remarkable contribution to the field of cultural studies. In his essay, he has analyzed…
Lacan’s version of psychoanalysis discourses mirror-stage as a part of identification in his three-stage model of identity formation. He is a French psychiatrist who worked with psychotic patients from 1930 to 1940. He began to develop his own version of…
Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas records the character of Mr. Biswas as an embodiment of displacement. His displacement is not a phenomenon that he is responsible for rather it is historically endowed on him. his forefather migrated to Trinidad…
Jhumpa Lahiri’s second literary contribution, The Namesake, published in 2003, is a novel on the Indian diaspora. Indian history of the diaspora is a long one, but after independence, it has caught the attention of creative writers. The novel records…
Syllable refers to the pronunciation of a single unit of a word. It is uttered with one push of the voice. In a more generalized manner, it can be said that a syllable occupies that part of a word that…
Lacan is a French psychiatrist whose own version of psychoanalysis is very distinctive with many remarkable aspects. He worked with psychotic patients from 1930 to 1940. During the 1950s, he began to develop his own version of psychoanalysis keeping his…
The term prosody is rooted in the Greek word prosodia which means a song sung to music. Gopal Mallik Thakur argues that it deals with the process of the constitution of the verses used in a poem. He furthers his…
Freud, in his psychoanalytical analysis, talks about three indirect routes to the unconscious. Through these routes, the ids or the polymorphous pervert desires try to come out from the realm of the unconscious. Freud argues that these desires always try…
Sigmund Freud is considered to be the father of the theoretical paradigm called to be psychoanalytic theory. Primarily, this theory is applied to cure those who suffered from different mental issues because of their inability of sublimating their pleasure principles.…
