Lacanian discourse analysis of dreaming about the dead father: is the father d(e)ad or still in the enuniıated signifiers?

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2024-2

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Saklı Demirbaş, Yağmur

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The current study aimed to examine how young adults whose father had died in early childhood construct discourses of their dreams about their fathers. The study mainly focused on the construction of the dreams on the basis of signifiers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants, and the audio records were transcribed without punctuation. For the analysis of the texts, Lacanian discourse analysis was employed with suggested seven elements: formal qualities of text, anchoring of representation, agency and determination, the role of knowledge, position in language, deadlocks of perspectives, and interpretation of textual material. As the outcome of the analyses, six head pieces were produced as signifiers for (death of) father, signifiers for father loss in dreams, positioning towards father in dreams, fixed points in discourses, deadlocks, and relation to the Other. The outcomes were discussed on the basis of relevant literature and clinical implications. Finally, suggestions for future studies were offered.

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Dream, Loss of Father, Lacanian Discourse Analysis, Psychoanalysis

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108369

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis