The roots of the refusal of modernity and the symbolic sterility of Iranians in the Qajar era

Subject Areas : Political Developments in Iran

Arash Monshizadegan ¹ , seyyeh hosseyn athari ²

1 - PhD. Department of Political Science, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran,
2 - Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2022-11-06 Accepted : 2023-01-03 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: phenomenology, Neuroticism, Qajar Era, modernity, symbolic infertility,

Abstract :

Iran''s encounter with Western civilization is the most important cultural phenomenon in Iran''s history after Iran''s encounter with Islam. On the one hand, it was the West that was attacking and on the other hand, an old Illyrian empire with kings who believed it was good to maintain the old balance, and for this reason, there is a need to analyze the face of Iranians in the Qajar era with modernity and Its complications should be paid. This research has been organized using the library and documentary tools and phenomenological method, and it seeks to investigate the question of what effect has the gradual invasion of modernity had on Iranians'' perception of facing this new phenomenon? And it is based on the assumption that the complications of the entry of modernity have led to the functional-identity refusal of Iranians and the symbolic sterility of Iranians in adopting a suitable reaction. According to the findings of the research, the Iranian subject, affected by the entry of the western "other" and modernity, suffered infertility and started non-symbolic identification with it.