The story of "Sheikh Sanan" is one of the beautiful narrations in
Persian literature. The application of new theories causes the
mentioned anecdote to show sociological and psychological
suggestions beyond its mystical text and context. Using approaches
related to social psychology, in addition to taking the text out of the
traditional limitations, an expounding and interpretativecapability is
provided to estimate the story of "Sheikh Sanan" according to Irving
Goffman's " stigma" theory. In the present article, an endeavor is
made to scrutinize the "story of Sheikh Sanan" by means of qualitative
description and analysis. The premise is that there are variables such
as "play pattern", "pattern of individual and collective kinship",
"social exclusion and isolation", "loss of common identity",
"learning", "knowledge and insiders", "Revelation", "habitual",
"recovery of lost identity", "defense and psychological mechanisms",
etc. in the mentioned narrative, has caused criticism and analysis as
well as the results of applying Goffman's "stigma" theory, be
believable and convincing.The presupposition is that the lack of
balance between the individual "self" and the social "self" has caused
the "stigma" of Sheikh Sanan.
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