Shovah’s Reality (Re)Construction: A Žižekian Reading of Ideology in Phil Kelly's Farsight

This research examines the logic behind Shovah's ideology upon Greater Good and how his fantasy helps him reconstruct reality in Phil Kelly's novel Farsight. The primary data of this is obtained by means close reading novel, notably narration conversation which concern Shovah overall attitude. analysis ideological journey employs Slavoj Žižek's theory ideology. study reveals that acts as an quilt, empty signifier unifies particular attributes. However, at same time, quilt unstable because there nothing it. According to theory, devotion can be seen a process satisfying traumatic abyss big Other, analogous nothingness. To elude abyss, constructed fantasy, screen against desire keep living reality.