Defeat of Subjectification in J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye: a Lacanian Reading

One of the most important concepts of Lacanian reading is subjectification. Lacanian subject creates in the process of subjectification that it emerged two movements of self-alienation through language and the separation of desire. One of the American novels that show problems of teenager’s subjectivity is J. D. Salinger‘s “The Catcher in the Rye”. It aims to study hero of the novel, Holden Caulfield‘s self-identity and his struggles to achieve a fix position as a subject and his protest and rebel against his society. It shows that his wanting to be a unified subject is disappointed. He wants to show that how the teenager’s crisis of identity leads to defeat of Subjectification and the conventional social norms and imposed identities cause that children suffered and self-alienated.