Contemporary Persian Literature

"Familiar Dream"; Phenomenological reading of Qeisar Aminpour's poetry

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Sayed Mahdi Ghafelebashi 1
Mohsen Zolfaghari, 2

1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Language, Literature and Cultural Studies Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa International University.

2 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Arak University

https://doi.org/10.30465/copl.2025.50430.4216
Abstract
When facing the world around him in his daily life, man first encounters the objects around him with a natural approach; But Husserl, in order to reach a philosophical point of view, tried to turn the attention from the Phenomenon to the Phenomena, and therefore, he invited to turn from the natural approach to the phenomenological approach. His strategy for this change of perspective is that the subject of knowledge, by suspending his presuppositions, focuses only on the matters of the object that appear to him and describes the phenomena from a subjective point of view. The poet is actually a perceiver who, by suspending the usual and everyday view of the objects of her lived world, describes them from a subjective point of view, and the poem is actually the same description of the poet's lived world from her perspective. In this research, the sonnet "Familiar Dream" by Qeisar Aminpour was reread in an analytical-descriptive way and based on the components of Husserl's phenomenology. And we came to the conclusion that in this sonnet, Qeisar by using the most important components of Husserl's phenomenology, such as "Intentionality", "Epoche", "Ego" or "phenomenological self", "Noesis" and "Noema", described "You" phenomenologically.

Keywords

"Qeisar Aminpour"
"Familiar Dream"
"Phenomenological criticism"
"Phenomenology"
"Edmund Husserl"
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Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
November 2025
Pages 269-297

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