Mystical experience in the men of the cave: A Lacanian reading of al-Kahf
Pengalaman mistik lelaki dalam Gua: Bacaan Lacanian terhadap surah al-Kahf
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https://doi.org/10.53840/alirsyad.v5i2.111Keywords:
Imaginary, Symbolic, Real, Mystical Experience, JouissanceAbstract
In his contribution to psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan introduces three orders according to which every psychoanalytic phenomenon can be described. These three orders are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary is the order in which the subject thinks of everything as his/her own. For the subject, there is no distinction between the other and the subject itself. In the symbolic order, the subject comes to realise that there is a gap between him or her and the other. S/he, then, starts to feel a lack that, for the rest of his/her life, the subject tries to fill in. The real is considered the most important order in which the subject tears away from the symbolic and tries to experience, once again, the unity it had in the imaginary order. It is in this phase that the subject experiences what is known as jouissance, or 'pleasure in pain'. The present study tries to look at the eighteenth chapter of the Holy Quran, al-Kahf (The Cave), in the light of psychoanalysis studies and Lacan's theories in order to analyse the mystical experience that the Men of the Cave go through to reach their final jouissance.
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