The semiotics of passions in the maze of the blind by Burhan Shawi Department of Arabic Language / College of Arts / University of Babylon

Abstract

Psychologists and philosophers, ancient and modern, have tried to penetrate the thorny area in which internal human battles erupt and the resulting psychological distress and physical and mental health problems. Researchers have set out to interrogate the subconscious of the human psyche in order to lift the barrier of speech, grant it the right to divulge secrets, and reveal its whims and contradictions. And her desires that drive her to shame and remorse, her illnesses, diseases, and other defects. In this context, narrative studies, in accordance with the data of modernity across its various spaces, were interested in employing the identity dimension, to reveal the emotional effects that literary texts leave on the psyche of the recipient, which is what “Burhan Shawi” exemplified in “Labyrinth.” “The Blind,” which made him give his central characters a narrative voice, so they declare their feelings and talk about their psychological disturbances, torments, and feelings of deprivation. Therefore, this study came to interrogate the set of readings that were formed around the maze texts, and to reveal the secrets of the semantic and symbolic structures of the semiotic signs that contributed to the construction of the text, as well as About the aesthetic features and expressive contexts emanating from the turbulent world of the self that abound in Burhan Shawi’s “The Labyrinth of the Blind” by Burhan Shawi. In this research, we will address the semiotics of desires in “The Labyrinth of the Blind” according to the axes required by the study.