Naturalising The Normal (Lawler: 2014)

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Naturalising The Normal (Lawler: 2014)

Ghurni Bhattacharya (UG-II)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

I. INTRODUCTION

“BAKI RAKHA KHAJNA/ MOTE BHALO KAJ NA “ ,”JE KORE KHONITE SROM/ JENO TARE DORE JOM “”ANAHARE NAHI KHED/ BESHI KHELE BARE MED ,”JAY JODI JAK PRAN /HIRAKER RAJA BHOGOBAN “(RAY,1980).We all are aware of the above mentioned phrases observed and vividly scripted by Satyajit ray in the film Hirak Rajar Deshe where we find there are certain praising phrases about the way the reign is continuing in HIRAK RAJYO and those who stood against such above mentioned praising phrases were forced to push into “JANTAR MANTAR GHAR” where the “identified “ person’s thought process is steered and geared up absolutely so that the person loses his autonomy and just become a mere puppet losing his possession of voice .This reference of film or particularly the concept of JANTARMANTAR GHAR is what is intertwined with our daily lives and we being a part of, this vicious cycle, suffering from global epidemic of sameness is unrecognized ,thus becomes the part and parcel of our everyday life activities and this “JANTAR MANTAR GHAR “steers our every step even today in its most practical instances .To be precise this global epidemic of sameness is nothing but recognizing the fact that we live in a world which already has a meaning associated and prescribed to it which is described in the works of phenomenologists like Edmund Husserl’s concept of LIFE-WORLD (Husserl:1936) or Alfred Schutz concept of STOCK KNOWLEDGE AT HAND and SOCIAL RECIPES inherited and transmitted down generation after generation with the help of the process of Socialisation and maintenance of it is expected by all its active members thereby maintenance of social order and stability which is of macro orientation , hence it can be said that we are living in a world where differences are not celebrated.This paper aims to focus on several aspects of “our” (ie instilled by society) daily life activities which is affecting the lives of the “DIFFERENTS” making rooms for creating their own modified self as well as creating our own self by visualizing as society instructs us to do . According to the viewpoint of Erving Goffman ,(A symbolic Interactionist and a spiritual existentialist finds that the concept of “SELF “ is neither out there nor intrinsic to” MYSELF “ but it is “Produced “described in all of his works “PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE “,”TOTAL INSTITUTIONS “”STIGMA “.(Lemert & Branaman:1997) Thus Self is created through action or performances and often emerges in constrained situation or at the junction of ABNORMAL CONDITION and NORMAL CONDITION (Lemert&Branaman:1997)

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