The Mirror of Ritual: A Study of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

Author Details

C.S.Biju Ph.D, Associate Professor, Dept. of English.

St.Thomas’ Collge, Thrissur, Kerala, India.

Abstract

The play The Birthday Party has intense implications to the critic who tries to use Lacanian psychoanalysis. The Birthday Party opens up an individual’s entry into a world of trauma, a system of oppression and to a set of codes he is not familiar with. This research article attempts to inquire the crisis in The Birthday Party with some fundamental concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis such as mirror stage, desire, imaginary and the symbolic orders.

Key words: Mirror stage, symbolic order, The Birthday Party, the trail of Stanley Weber, Sea side House of Meg and Petey.

Please cite this article as: C.S.Biju Ph.D (2017) The Mirror of Ritual: A Study of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party . International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 4, 3(22),97-102