Alienation loss disintegration dislocation and self destruction in the select postcolonial novels

Abstract

This study is a psychoanalytic approach of select postcolonial novels. The researcher selects five psychoanalytic structures as the major themes of his analysis. The selected structures are correlated to each other and each of them has the impact on the others. The select structures are alienation, loss, disintegration, dislocation and self-destruction. The researcher divides this study on the basis of these themes. In each chapter the researcher explains the different manifestations of one of the psychoanalytic structure and its reflections in the select texts. Moreover, the study explains the sub-structures that relate to the main psychoanalytic structures explaining the different manifestations of these structures. The first chapter of this study contains a critical background concerning the field of study, the specific psychoanalytic structures and the select texts. In chapter two, the loneliness, solitude, the feelings of estrangement and separateness are being analyzed in addition to alienation as they are related to as well as its manifestation. Chapter three is devoted to loss. It contains an elaborated psychoanalytic approach of the different form of loss in the select novels. The feelings of loss, the loss of senses, the loss of self-esteem, and the loss of loss are explained. In this chapter, the researcher regards the loss of object as the source of the experiences of loss in the select texts. The different manifestations of loss such as the loss of mother, the anxiety, the fear, the phobia, the phobic object and fetishism are analyzed in this chapter. In chapter four, the disintegration and its manifestations are explained. The fragmentation of self, the split of the self and its division are explained and analyzed thoroughly in the select texts. The disintegration of the characters, the cultures, the social and religious systems are elaborately discussed in this chapter. Chapter five deals with dislocation. It contains a sufficient account for the different manifestations of it, such as the