Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR), cilt.9, sa.3, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
The study of moods of protagonists
and other major characters of literary pieces have been one of the hot debating
areas of research for both psychoanalysts and literary critics. The role of
subjectivism in modern studies has led critics to more deep and delicate
understanding of texts. Freud, Lacan and Zizek were the most eminent pioneers
of this movement towards the establishment of theoretical and methodological
elements of such analysis. But a combined Nietzschean-Foucauldian approach
under the name of ‘Desubjectivization’ in this study has a very new and
untouched approach to analysis in literary texts.
The present paper explores the
impact of power relations over the unconsciousness of subjects in an
ideological society of Southern America and the way in which these subjects
turn into matters of objectivization in such situations. In the first step, the
dominant ideology of 1900th South America and the powerful impact of its
functionality are identified in Quentin Compson’s section of The Sound and the
Fury. Then, the process of metamorphosis from a coherent and active subject
into an object of illusion is analyzed. At the final step, the study shows how
subjects become highly preoccupied with the matters of value, beliefs, and
shame that forget their role as a living creature capable of reasoning, and
change into objects. In other words, they (subjects) become the things and all
these things’ externalizations do overshadow the events of the stories. For
instance, in Quentin’s case, this is not the Quentin who commits suicide, but
it is the odium which devastates him.