A psychological study of Ibn Arabi in the novel “A Small Death” of Hassan Alwan, based on the psychological method Analysis of the narration of “A Small Death” on the basis of psychological method (Freud and Lacan's theories as a model)

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1 Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

3 PhD Student in Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The resurgence of Islamic civilization has many faces, including the summoning of historical figures in Arab novels and the embodiment of these characters in them. The novel "A Small Death" written by Muhammad Hassan Alwan is one of the most prominent examples in which the narrator wears the mask of the elder Sheikh Ibn Arabi on his face. This research relies on the descriptive-analytical method and Freud's theories in the analysis of personality, and Jouissance Lacan, theories that are defined in the context of psychology. This science helps the researcher to analyze the reflection of the personality of Ibn Arabi in the mirror of time and the thought of the contemporary intellectual. Among the achievements of this article: The character of Ibn Arabiya in this novel is a masochistic character, and the reason for this goes back to his childhood and his father's behavior towards him; The father was a strict and expectant person, and the child was unable to respond to his father's expectations, which led to the child feeling guilty and punishing himself. The whole novel was the story of Ibn Arabiya's attempts to escape from his anxiety stemming from his past and to reach calm, in short, he wants to achieve his Jouissance. In fact, it is the search for geometry that can explain Ibn Arabi's behavior and what he has in mind about following the path of Sufism. Ibn Arabi turned to Sufism with the encouragement of the one whom Fatima ibn al-Muthanna met, and he searched the Islamic world from west to east to reach its four pegs. And at every stage of his life, he gave up some of his worldly desires to become worthy of the position of the pole, the position in which he would see his happiness, the happiness that Lacan calls a Jouissance.

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Quarterly of Arabic Language and Literature
Volume 17, Issue 4
January 2022
Pages 547-573

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