Abstract
The influences of Journey to the West (JTTW), one of the greatest classical Chinese novels, in contemporary Chinaare still magnificent. This is sufficiently reflected in the domains of both (high) academic studies and (low) popular culture.Employing Lacanian psychoanalysis and Agambenian political analysis as the main methodological approach, this paper aims atshedding light on the studies of JTTW a novel, interdisciplinary light by concentrating on analyzing symptomatic?political excessesof JTTW's narrative structure. By doing that, the “anomalies” embedded in the novel's narrative structure would receive newinterpretative explanations. The analysis powerfully shows that the “unreal” (mythical) world depicted by JTTW, is more realthan reality itself.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Symptom of a Journey: A Lacanian?Agambenian Analysis of Journey to the West |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 36-48 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Mar 2018 |