Summary
The article focuses on the provocative thematization of forgiveness in Shakespeare’s final completed play. Interpreting the fractures and tensions of the main character, the study employs some of Jacques Derrida’s key ideas on the problem of forgiveness. The close reading of Prospero’s position within the economy of power and desire in “The Tempest” also outlines a conceptual field where legal theory, literature, and Lacanian psychoanalysis are intertwined. Their productive encounter discloses certain (non)written structures that regulate and direct a subject’s desire and social relations. In light of modern-day collapse of these matrices and their symbolic order, the article is a conceptual wager to resist their disappearance, albeit from a seemingly distant point of view.
Aпорията на Просперо: Прошка, тревожност и перверзия в „Бурята“ на Шекспир
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KeywordsSummaryThe article focuses on the provocative thematization of forgiveness in Shakespeare’s final completed play. Interpreting the fractures and tensions of the main character, the study employs some of Jacques Derrida’s key ideas on the problem of forgiveness. The close reading of Prospero’s position within the economy of power and desire in “The Tempest” also outlines a conceptual field where legal theory, literature, and Lacanian psychoanalysis are intertwined. Their productive encounter discloses certain (non)written structures that regulate and direct a subject’s desire and social relations. In light of modern-day collapse of these matrices and their symbolic order, the article is a conceptual wager to resist their disappearance, albeit from a seemingly distant point of view.