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This paper examines the birth and truth of the subject in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes in terms of Lacan's subject. As well described in Lacan's theory of the university discourse, subject is formed by education. Considering educators teach students what their society needs or demands, students can't help but accept the value or ideal the society seeks. This explains why it is difficult for the subject to be free from ideology. However, Lacan's subject can resist the force of ideology because all subjects have different desires caused by their different personal histories. In Under Western Eyes, Razumov and Haldin take the same education in the same university, but their attitudes to the ruling ideology are quite different: Razumov who hopes to succeed in the world accepts Absolutism, but Haldin who seeks Liberalism tries to destroy the existing political system. Subjects caught in ideology can't reach the truth about themselves until they are free from the fantasy of ideology. Razumov stops being the blind instrument of Absolutism when he realizes what he really desires. His struggle for the truth about himself finally makes him a free man.
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Conrad, Lacan, subject, discourse, ideology, desire, truth
