Is There a Place for the Other in Folkloristics (CROSBI ID 595619)
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Polgar, Nataša
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Is There a Place for the Other in Folkloristics
An effort will be made in this paper to identify the frameworks within which it is possible to introduce the concept of the Other into folkloristics. The Other is discussed primarily as a psychoanalytic term coined by Jacques Lacan, notion that is very fruitful in the interpretation of diverse aspects of culture and folklore phenomena, which are not, for their part, fully explicable only with the help of historical, political and social factors. This paper deals with the ways how Lacan's categories can be used in reading narratives and oral stories about supernatural beings, especially witches. The psychological dimensions of the construction of witches have not been properly taken into consideration, although witch-trial records, narratives about witches, oral stories and Malleus Maleficarum in particular would allow such analyses. Witches are presented as an extreme, as particularly evil or harmful, as beings which undermine the social order. Their construction as the Other can be read as a means of establishing the social order, a way of maintaining and preserving cultural norms.
Other; Lacan; psychoanalysis; witch; folkloristics
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2010.
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Beyond Essentialisms. Challenges of Anthropology in the 21st Century
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25.11.2010-27.11.2010
Ljubljana, Slovenija