OICC Press Journal of New Trends in English Language Learning (JNTELL) 2821-2290 2 4 2023 12 01 Perception and Misperception of Violence:A Žižekian Study of Toni Morrison's TheBluest Eye and Beloved 59 70 10.30495/jntell.2023.1990314.1071 EN Afshin Mosallanejad PhD Candidate of Department of English Language and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Hassan Shahabi Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran Sharam Reesi Sistani Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran Journal Article 2023 12 01 Violence as an unavoidable part of human beings' experience is so widespread within individuals' contacts that in most cases isignored or taken for granted. However, violence is subject to various misperceptions that make the study of it challenging.Theoretically, this paper adopts the three forms of violence suggested by Slavoj Žižek: subjective, objective and systemic violencein order to explore how Žižek proves the ways by which, violence is perceived and misperceived. In doing so, this paper appliespolitical discourse analysis, Black gender feminism, and psychoanalytic methods to be the approaches of this study. By applyingŽižek's theories of violence on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved as the corpus of the study the current paper exploresviolence and the ways it is misrepresented. The objective of this paper is to explore the strategies which lead to misperception ofviolence. The conclusion drawn from this paper shows that Žižekian systemic violence that generates other forms of violenceshould remain hidden as dark matter of physics. Some pseudo-activities, ideologies or pseudo-ideologies can be at work in theirmanifest and latent forms when something that is so obviously omnipresent remains invisible or is misperceived.