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al-Irsyad Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues

ISSN 0128-116X

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Mystical experience in the men of the cave: a Lacanian reading of al-Kahf

al-Irsyad Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues December 29, 2020 Tayebeh Barati, Pyeaam Abbasi

In his contribution to psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan introduces three orders according to which every psychoanalytic phenomenon can be described. These three orders are the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. The imaginary is the order in which the subject thinks of everything as his/her own. For the subject there is no distinction between the other and the subject itself. In the symbolic...