{"id":28774,"date":"2024-06-26T02:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/chapter-one-of-vegetal-transformation-transcending-trauma-in-han-kangs-the-vegetarian\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T02:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:01:12","slug":"chapter-one-of-vegetal-transformation-transcending-trauma-in-han-kangs-the-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/chapter-one-of-vegetal-transformation-transcending-trauma-in-han-kangs-the-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One of Vegetal Transformation: Transcending Trauma in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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I have already got my thesis proposal approved.
The title of my thesis is “Vegetal Transformation: Transcending Trauma in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian”
The chapter design is as follows: The first chapter provides a synthesis of the theoretical frameworks of Lacan\u2019s psychoanalysis and Michael Marder\u2019s plant philosophy. It attempts to link Lacan\u2019s idea of jouissance, \u201cnot-all,\u201d and sinthome with Marder\u2019s discussion on plant-thinking. By bridging Lacan and Marder\u2019s theories, this chapter seeks to propose a novel approach to understanding how plant philosophy could connect with psychoanalysis. Employing this approach, it outlines an alternative traumatic healing and resistant possibility through the embodiment of plant thinking.
The second chapter delves into the brother-in-law\u2019s grappling with the political trauma of the May Massacre in Korea. Employing Lacanian concepts of fantasy, desire, trauma, and objet petit a, this chapter examines the brother-in-law\u2019s obsession over Yeong-hye\u2019s Mongolian mark. It analyzes his fantasy of vegetal sex and his distinct perception of Yeong-hye\u2019s conversion into vegetarianism, differing from the other family members. Through the mediation of Yeong-hye\u2019s role in the brother-in-law\u2019s traumatic response, the chapter explores the employment of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the particular socio-political context and the linkage between personal and political traumatic experiences. This linkage further contrasts the brother-in-law\u2019s traumatic loop in the symbolic order permeated by patriarchal violence with Yeong-hye\u2019s vegetal transformation as an alternative response beyond the anthropocentric and logocentric order.
The final chapter focuses on Yeong-hye\u2019s psychological development and the significance of her vegetal transformation. Through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Michael Marder\u2019s plant theory, this chapter probes into the trauma represented in Yeong-hye\u2019s fragmented dreams, memory, and rejection of meat. Most importantly, it explores how Yeong-hye\u2019s embodiment of \u201cplant thinking\u201d in Marder\u2019s term echoes Lacan\u2019s sinthome. The chapter argues that by traversing the fantasy and identifying with her symptom in vegetal form, Yeong-hye demonstrates a unique mode of ethical resistance. To conclude, the thesis aims to examine the question of how vegetal transformation acts as a primary traumatic response in Han Kang\u2019s The Vegetarian and its embodied resistant possibility. Through the synthesis of the theoretical frameworks of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Michael Marder\u2019s plant philosophy, the thesis analyzes and compares traumatic processes and their consequences for the brother-in-law and Yeong-hye in order to offer further insight into a new model of plant-based trauma healing.
I need the expert of Lacanian psychoanalysis and who can master Marder’s plant theories. Also, able to read the whole text of Han Kang\u2019s The Vegetarian is the basic requirement for me to help completing this thesis.
My advisor requires direct quotes from and analysis of the original works. For instance, the quotes from and analysis of Lacanian theories with the original books by Lacan like Seminars; Michael Marder’s theories from his Plant Thinking; the exploration of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian with the texts of the novel.
Each chapter should contain 20 pages at least; conclusion should contain 15 pages at least. 
This order is for the writing of the Chapter One. If I am happy with the quality, we can work on the following chapters.
The Essential Sources as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Chiesa,
\n Lorenzo. \u201cLacan Le-sinthome.\u201d Re-inventing
\n the Symptom: Essays <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

     
\n <\/span>on the Final Lacan<\/span><\/i>, edited by Luke Thurston, Other Press, 2002, pp. <\/span><\/p>\n

      <\/span>157-170. <\/span><\/p>\n

Coffman,
\n Chris. \u201cThe Unpredictable Future of Fantasy\u2019s Traversal.\u201dAngelaki: <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

     
\n <\/span>Journal of the Theoretical Humanities<\/span><\/i>, vol. 18, no. 4, Dec. 2013, pp. <\/span><\/p>\n

      <\/span>43-57.<\/span><\/p>\n

Han,
\n Kang. The Vegetarian<\/i>. Portobello
\n Books, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lacan, Jacques.
\n Ecrits<\/i>. Norton & Company, 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

—.<\/span> <\/span>The Four
\n Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis<\/span><\/i>. London, Hogarth <\/span><\/p>\n

Press, 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n

—.<\/span> The Seminar of Jacques
\n Lacan: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

and Knowledge<\/span><\/i> (Book XX: Encore 1972-1973). <\/b><\/i>W.W. Norton & <\/span><\/p>\n

Company, 1998.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> Sinthome:
\n The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII<\/span><\/i>. Polity Press. 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Marder,
\n Michael. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy
\n of Vegetal Life<\/i>, Columbia UP, <\/span><\/p>\n

2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> \u201cPlant Intentionality and the
\n Phenomenological Framework of Plant <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence.\u201d Plant Signaling & Behavior<\/i>, vol.
\n 7, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1-8.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> \u201cThe Place of Plants: Spatiality, Movement,
\n Growth.\u201d Journal<\/i>, vol. 1, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015, pp. 1-9.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> \u201cThinking from a Void.\u201d Bauhaus Dessau Foundation<\/i>, 2023, pp. 20-25.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/b>.
\n \u201cWhat Is Plant-Thinking?\u201d <\/span>Klesis
\n – Revue Philosophique<\/i>, vol. 25,
\n 2013,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

pp.
\n 124-143.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marder, Michael, and
\n Luce Irigaray. Through Vegetal Being:
\n Two Philosophical Perspectives<\/i>, Columbia UP, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meeker, Natania, and
\n Ant\u00f3nia Szabari. Radical Botany: Plants
\n and Speculative Fiction<\/i>. Fordham UP, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pluth,
\n Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in
\n Lacan\u2019s Theory of the Subject<\/i>, <\/span><\/p>\n

      <\/span>Albany: State U of New York P, 2007, <\/span>chapter 4-8.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Verhaeghe,
\n Paul, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Declercq. \u201cLacan\u2019s Analytic Goal: Le <\/span><\/p>\n

      <\/span>Sinthome or the Feminine Way.\u201d Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

     
\n <\/span>on the Final Lacan<\/span><\/i>, edited by Luke Thurston, Other Press, 2002, pp. <\/span><\/p>\n

      <\/span>59\u201382.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u017d<\/span>i\u017eek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology<\/i>. New
\n York: Verso, 1989, <\/span>Part 1 <\/span><\/p>\n

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