AN APPROACH TO GEORGE ORWELL’S 1984 VIA LACAN AND SOJA’S THIRDSPACING
AN APPROACH TO GEORGE ORWELL’S 1984 VIA LACAN AND SOJA’S THIRDSPACING

Summary/Abstract: The paper expands upon Orwell’s novel simply and suggestively entitled “1984” as the extreme representation of social and political alienation caused by communism regime in Eastern European countries. From a methodological point of view, we will turn to good account Lacan’s psychological model based on depicting the three registers of human reality. The first one, the imaginary will be approached in terms of the spectacular, the second, the symbolic, will be tackled in terms of meanings attached to those things around us, while the third, the real will be focused on the meaninglessness and the absurdity of the world we live in. Soja’s Thirdspacing, the space of experience, simultaneously real-and-imagined, actual – and –virtual, which arises from the Firstspace of objects and the Secondspace of thought, will be closely examined and commented upon in connection with Orwell’s novel. Soja’s Thirdspacing will be analyzed as embodied in the organized crimes of moral wounds and neglect depicted in the novel.

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