Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language And Literature https://dsr.mutah.edu.jo/index.php/jjall <p style="direction: ltr;"><img src="https://dsr.mutah.edu.jo/public/site/images/shahed_khaled1994/7.png" alt="" /></p> <p><strong>Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language and Literature (JJALL) </strong></p> <p><strong> Print ISSN :2520-7180 | Online ISSN: 3005-2483</strong></p> <p><strong>Published with the Support of Scientific Research &amp; Innovation Support Fund</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong> </strong><strong>Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language and Literature is an open-access journal committed to publishing original high-quality scholarly research papers that provide solid insights into all aspects of Arabic Language and Literature.</strong></p> <p><strong>The Journal publishes academic materials such as original academic articles matching the Journal’s areas of interest and following the standards and methodology of academic research, edited and translated texts, and book reviews.</strong></p> <p><strong> Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language and Literature is an international academic journal, that publishes refereed articles specialized in Arabic Language and Literature.</strong></p> <p><strong> The Journal is supported by the Scientific Research Support Fund at the Ministry of Higher Education and the Deanship of Academic Research, Mutah University, Karak, Jordan. Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language and Literature publishes articles by Jordanian and international researchers in both Arabic and English four times a year (March, June, September, and December). Articles submitted for publication are evaluated by procedures established by the Journal and follow COPE publishing ethics roles </strong><a href="https://publicationethics.org/"><strong>https://publicationethics.org/</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> en-US jjarabic@mutah.edu.jo (Professor Fayiz Abdulnabi Al-Qaysi ) jjarabic@mutah.edu.jo (Ms. Areen Dalain) Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100 OJS 3.3.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Suad Al-Sabah’s “A Woman Without Shores” from the Psychoanalytic Perspective of Jacques Lacan https://dsr.mutah.edu.jo/index.php/jjall/article/view/1048 <p>The research intended to analyze the collection of poems entitled “<em>A Woman Without Coasts</em>” by Suad Al-Sabah from the perspective of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in exploring the collection’s metaphorical and figurative language, which formed the metonymy of signifiers and determined the centrality of the signifier during desire in the collection, in terms of its dual identification in the imaginary system and triple conflict in the symbolic system in light of the terms “presence” and “absence.”</p> <p>The research used the psychoanalytic method of Jacques Lacan through the triangles of the "Imaginary" and the "Symbolic," as well as monitoring the course of desire depending on the results of statistical tables such as the tables of Lacanian analytical references, auxiliary words, the development of discourse, and the statistics of the keyword "love."</p> <p>The research concluded the significance of the word metaphor as related to psychoanalysis to explore the unconscious expressions that confirmed the poet’s feminist project and the sincerity of her desire in discourse represented in the main title, “<em>A Woman without Shores</em>,” or “<em>A Woman without Love</em>.” The collection included ten poems, five of which are identical to the “Other” in the imaginary system, while the other poems formed the symbolic system starting from her sixth poem, “<em>A Woman Without Shores</em>,” and reaching the tenth, “<em>The Revolution of the Folded Chicken</em>” in which she revolted against her masculine reality that suppresses her desire to be with him on a common linguistic coast.</p> <p>Thus, in light of the psychoanalysis theory, the researcher answered many questions about the contradiction between the poet’s “I” and her poetic “Self” during her transition from the imaginary system to the symbolic system.</p> Mahmoud Fahmi Amer Copyright (c) 2025 Jordanian Journal of Arabic Language And Literature https://dsr.mutah.edu.jo/index.php/jjall/article/view/1048 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100