he Lacanian Study of the Mower Poems : Mower’s Separation from and Reunion with Nature

This study aims to analyze Marvell’s the Mower Poems in terms of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The researcher tries to show the resemblance of the triadic relationship of the Oedipus complex in thefirst three Mower Poems: The Mower against Gardens, Damon the Mower, The Mower to theGlowworms . The main desire of the Mower is toward the reunion with the mother. This desire can also be seen as the death drive, which means returning to the preoedipal stage. In the last poem, TheMower’s Song , as the result of the foreclosure, the Mower shows some signs of psychosis. Thispoem ends with the death of the Mower and his return to nature. This return to, and reunion with, nature can be read as the return and reunion with the mother, and dissolution of the Mower’s subjectivity. The researcher tries to read the four poems as a cycle. It starts from the imaginary stage of union between the Mower and nurturing nature, and ends with his return to nature by his death

Keywords:

Castration , Death Drive , Jouissance , the Name-of-the-father , and Need