Abstract
The influences of Journey to the West (JTTW) , one of the greatest classical Chinese novels, in contemporary China are still magnificent. This is sufficiently reflected in the domains of both (high) academic studies and (low) popular culture. Employing Lacanian psychoanalysis and Agambenian political analysis as the main methodological approach, this paper aims at shedding light on the studies of JTTW a novel, interdisciplinary light by concentrating on analyzing symptomatic-political excesses of JTTW's narrative structure. By doing that, the "anomalies" embedded in the novel's narrative structure would receive new interpretative explanations. The analysis powerfully shows that the "unreal" (mythical) world depicted by JTTW, is more real than reality itself.
First Page
36
Last Page
48
Recommended Citation
Wu, Guanjun. 2018. "The Symptom of a Journey: A Lacanian-Agambenian Analysis of Journey to the West." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (2): pp.36-48. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss2/18
