Hysteric Subject between the Imaginary and Symbolic Orders: A Lacanian Critique of Curfewed Night

This research attempts to unearth the contrasting discourses that constitute subjectivity in Basharat Peer’s memoir. By highlighting circulation of these multiple discourses, further endeavours trace resistance subject's agency. These often resorting violent modes disciplining, relentlessly struggle configure subject. However, with its potential for resistance, agency subverts all hegemonic configurations. Drawing upon Lacan's imagery and symbolic orders along Lacanian discourses: master's discourse, university's analyst's hysteric's this paper reads incidents as symptomatic a problem beyond their literal signification. concludes Kashmiri subject becomes battleground contradictory forces: military militants. fashioning disciplining go awry agency's resistance.