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If Žižek look awry at The Sleep of Endymion

The Way of Seeing Painting in S/Z

Authors
Yuqi Pan1, *, Huachen Xiong2
1College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, Shantou, China
2Faculty of International Tourism and Management, City University of Macau, Macau, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 22yqpan@stu.edu.cn
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Yuqi Pan
Available Online 31 December 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
S/Z; The Sleep of Endymion; Looking awry; The real meaning
Abstract

In the post-structuralist text S/Z, Roland Barthes believed that the “real meaning” of Anne-Louis Girodet’s oil painting The Sleep of Endymion was “castration”, and used “castration meaning” to cancel the interpretation of the art. Lacan, however, believes that there is still surplus after castration, and object petit a is the leftover of the Real. Slavoj Žižek further interprets Lacan and believes that art itself has been castrated in the works of art. However, because of the existence of object petit a, the leftover of the Real, he does not cancel the interpretation of the works of art, but instead advocates to squint and look at the existence of object petit a beyond the Symbolic Order of the art viewer, so as to explain why the “real meaning” is. This paper interprets the relevant texts in S/Z with “Looking awry”, analyzes the Symbolic Order produced by the Marquis when she watches The Sleep of Endymion in the text, and obtains that the “real meaning” of this oil painting in S/Z is “feminine beauty”.

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Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2023)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_2
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2352-5398
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