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If you have passed through Khayyam Street in the Sepad tourist area, you must have seen the giant statue of Rostam standing at the entrance of Ghahramanan Amusement Park. The giant statue is similar to children's dreams. Dream dimensions are a symbol of active intrapersonal aspects; A giant that is a sign of a child's dream and desire to grow up. A passerby would stop by it for a few minutes to observe and ponder Rostam. This statue is a push to activate imagination and fantasy. As Slavi Žižek says about "fantasy", it fills the scenario of a void opened by another desire. Fantasy enables us to escape name binding to another's desire.
The anxiety of facing the giant Rostam at the entrance of Ghahramanan amusement park brings up two questions depending on the age group and lived experiences.
• What does Rostam want from me?
• What do I want from Rostam?
What if the guest, instead of referring to the stories of the Shahnameh and proceeding with the visit to the amusement park in the same way they visit Ferdowsi's tomb, imagines and tell their companions: "What do I want from Rostam?" or "What do I want to show Rostam?". Questions that overcome initial anxiety and this visual scenario push back the common question in the theory of Jacques Lacan "What does the significant other want from me?". Now it is probably Rostam who is facing this conspiracy. "What does the other want from me?"
The anxiety of facing the giant Rostam at the entrance of Ghahramanan amusement park brings up two questions depending .on the age group and lived experiences
• What does Rostam want from me?
•What do I want from Rostam?
Now the subject is sure that not only is he going to spend a few hours in the amusement park with Rostami, who comes from the books, and go to war with Sohrab or talk about the sacred things, but will always be eager to show everything he sees to the giant Rostam and have a flowing experience with him, indeed. When taking a selfie with it, they have their angle, color, and personal style to shoot a photo that leaves a unique experience for Rostam. Just take a look at the tones of selfie photos taken with Rostam. All of them are in a particular individual style, and the coexistence of this particular style and how Rostam is placed in the frame, the bold point of which is the person's appearance, then the proximity of the subject with Rostam, and finally Rostam which takes a collective identity due to being placed in the style of the subject.
Finally, it seems as if this is the subject that shows Rostam where this place is?!
The subject creates a defensive shield with the fantasy of accompanying Rostam as an embodied and gigantic fantasy for himself against a series of voids, while in the confrontation and the initial question of "What does Rostam want from me?" the macro narrative behind this imaginary symbol of the Shahnameh lies behind and makes the subject disappear and destroys the possibility of personal experience.
Now, in the second scenario, the giant Rostam whose name is famous in the amusement park as a symbol of the imagination and championships, is supposed to have a meta-life through individual experiences in a wide variety of styles that the guests of the amusement park use as an excuse. Therefore, fantasy and anxiety act as a mediator between reality and symbolism. This is where the question arises, what unique experiences Rostam can have that were not even possible in the most imaginative literature before?
Finally, the giant Rostam remains in the entrance, and it is the subject who with the initial surprise of the imaginary dimensions of Rostam has fallen into such a field and scenario, and in the absence of the anxiety, can experience the world of the amusement park and take this lived experience to home. However, there are no such urban places in the city to provide this experience for him. The initial encounter with the giant Rostam will lead to the question of what desire I have that Rostam is going to fulfill! Whether Rostam or Ghahramanan amusement park!