Document Type : Original Article

Author

Ph.D. in Persian Language and Literature, Postdoctoral, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Mazandaran, Iran.

10.22080/lpr.2026.30404.1162

Abstract

Due to the expansion of communications on the Internet, a new discourse has emerged in cyberspace, and due to its specific nature, language is one of its most important elements. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, language is also an important element that creates a wounded subject who is faced with a kind of lack. This lack creates a desire within the subject that turns to fantasy to satisfy. It seems that the current subject has turned to a new fantasy that is taking shape in the form of a specific language on virtual social networks. A language that has differences from the standard Persian language, and if not addressed, could threaten its health and cause irreparable damage to its future. Considering the importance of language for Lacan, this research, using a descriptive-analytical method, examined and pathologized the language of cyberspace users from psychoanalytic fantasy’s perspective. The findings show that the grammatical rules of the standard language, as the object of a fantasy, have lost their function and appeal for the Persian-speaking cyberspace subjects; thereby, they have not adhered to the rules of grammar. Therefore, by resisting it, it seeks to construct a new fantasy in the form of a new linguistic discourse that replaces the previous standard language and pushes the subject more and more towards this language as a kind of new fantasy to strengthen the illusion of desire satisfaction in him.

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