Abstract This paper presents a report on our psychoanalytic investigation of cultural folktales, myths, and fables, in which we study, primarily, the extent to which such narratives lurk behind contemporary representations of men and women. Our aim is to identify the multiple narrative structures that form the core plots and storylines of these tales. Following Roland Barthes’ work on mythologies, we want to decode the tales’ ideological components by deciphering the axiomatic assumptions these tales make about the nature of perceived social reality. This represents an attempt to study a mind that is derived from the text. More specifically, we study narratives whose storylines revolve around the struggle between men and women in order to identify the culture’s core concerns about and preoccupations with the relationship between the sexes. We believe that cultural myths or folktales are a royal road to a nation’s collective conscience, and include gendered patterns of defenses, obsessions, fears, and paranoia.

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沙发上的波斯故事：关于民间故事的笔记作为当代文化与性别和性斗争的镜子

摘要 本文提出了一份关于我们对文化民间故事、神话和寓言的精神分析调查的报告，其中我们主要研究了此类叙事在当代男性和女性表征背后潜伏的程度。我们的目标是确定构成这些故事的核心情节和故事情节的多重叙事结构。继罗兰·巴特 (Roland Barthes) 在神话方面的工作之后，我们希望通过破译这些故事对感知到的社会现实的性质做出的公理假设来解码这些故事的意识形态成分。这代表了研究源自文本的思想的尝试。更具体地说，我们研究故事情节围绕男女斗争的叙事，以确定文化对两性关系的核心关注和关注。