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This paper scrutinizes forms of political violence in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language (1988) by means of a theory of ideology in Slavoj Zizek. We can understand how the characters involved in the ideological construction interact violently with each other through this play. According to Zizek, the ideology works by retaining a series of obscene superego supplements, which consist of the collective unconscious to sustain some community power. In this play, the soldiers who suppress mountain people are obsessed with ‘ideological fantasy,’ in terms of Zizek, which is structuring relationship to reality. Enforced silence through the outlawing a language, the subjugated people, two women and the prisoner, are situated as the object-cause of desire by literary torture. Bringing various symbolic images in this play, Pinter alludes to us the menace of embodied violence within the political system.
