Document Type : Original Article
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Assistant Professor of Political Science. Shahid Mahallati Higher Education Institution
Abstract
The idea of "returning to oneself" is possible based on the assumption of raising "self" and human agency (subjectivity), and based on this, the question arises whether the thought and works of Jalal Al Ahmad, as one of the main heralds of this idea, Do they enable the emergence of Iranian subjectivity? In this research, by using the theoretical premises of subjectivism and the concept of representation, which connects the expression of individual identity and subjectivism with literature, the search for self-identity and subjectivity in the works of Al-Ahmad and the representation of "self" and the real world or "pretense" and movement towards hyperreality - based on Baudrillard's ideas - was studied as the basis of projecting or rejecting the return to oneself in Al-Ahmed's works. The final result shows that the emergence of the idea of returning to oneself in the works of Jalal Al-Ahmed is mostly in the form of protesting the existing situation and this issue has deep roots of negation of "self". "Self", which is the basis for the emergence of subjectivism and active confrontation with the outside world, collapses and dissolves from all sides in Al-Ahmad's works. Al-Ahmad does not allow subjectivity to take place. He always seeks to negate himself (the subject) and place it in a shadow of ambiguity. Such an identity of his "self" causes him to move from the representation of the real world to the threshold of hyperreality.
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