• Dr Farooq Ahmad Sheikh Assistant Professor

    • 9797140066
    • farooqsheikh@kashmiruniversity.ac.in

My present research lies at the intersection of literary theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and philosophy, with a sustained focus on the Lacanian Real/void, minor literature, ideology, and subversion. I theorize literature not as representation or ideological instrument but as an eruption of the Real—a site where freedom, surplus jouissance, and the limits of symbolization become visible. My recent work offers psychoanalytic readings of Indian English fiction, including The White Tiger and Booker Prize–winning novels, reconceptualizing postcolonial exoticism, revolution, and liberation beyond instrumental politics. My current research further expands psychoanalysis through mysticism and non-Western epistemologies, particularly through comparative engagements between Lacanian theory, Sufism, and Quranic models of the psyche (nafs, qalb, aql, ruh).



Faculty Details




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Administrative Position
Proctor North Campus
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Research Papers Published

  • "Subjectivity, desire and theory: Reading Lacan" Cogent OA Humanities, Taylor and Francis Group, 4(1): 1 -12 {ISSN: 23311983} Impact Factor=
  • "Psychoanalysis and Sexuation from Clinic to Culture: Reading Lacan with Other Theorists on Sex/Gender Constitution" American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 27(2): 22 -29 {ISSN: 1548-7776} Impact Factor=
  • "PATRIARCHY AND THE LACANIAN SYMBOLIC: CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ANITA DESAI’S FASTING FEASTING" Gradiva, 64(3): 81 -91 {ISSN: 0363-8057} Impact Factor=
  • "Representing Desire in Minor Literature: Characterisation in The White Tiger" Rupkatha Journal, 17(2): 1 -13 {ISSN: 0975-2935} Impact Factor= 0.2

Teaching:

DepartmentSubjectCourse TaughtSemester
North Campus EnglishMA EnglishPoetry-I1
North Campus EnglishPhD EnglishCritical Theory and Research Methodology1
North Campus EnglishMA EnglishPoetry-II2
North Campus EnglishMA EnglishLiterary Theory and Criticism-I3
North Campus EnglishMA EnglishAmerican Literature(Poetry and Drama)4