Somayeh Khani

The Lost "I" in Kane's World: a Lacanian Study of Cleansed and Crave Somayeh Khani

Being lost in a world overwhelmed by absence, leaves you nothing but as chance to seek a faked ID or at last a courage to get rid of the lost self! This is the way life goes on for Kane's characters in Cleansed and Crave. Giving a short summary of the plays, this book attempts to take you deep in the source of the problems the characters endure in the light of theories of the outstandig French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan who believed in studying the work of art through the characters not the author. Cleansed is a play speaking through images full of violence which are meant to give the symbolic meaning to the individuals and Crave consists of four nameless characters that are sitting on chairs, talking to the audience.