Portrayal of Women in Khushwant Singh s Fiction a Psycho Analytical Investigation

Abstract

The premise of thesis is on the psychoanalytical assessment of women in newlineKushwant Singh s select fictional works. Singh studied, knew, and shared his experiences newlineabout women sans restraints and never minced words in giving vent to women s carnal newlinedesires. The women s indulgences in the joys of sensual pleasures have been etched newlinescrupulously by him as his fictional world conjures a society in which people cultivate newlinetheir intimacies essentially guarded and guided by their subjectivity. newlineThis researcher studies Khushwant Singh s fictional women based on the newlinepsychoanalytical concepts and theories proposed by psychoanalysts, like Freud, Jung, newlineAdler, and neo-Freudians etc. The thesis comprises of five chapters. The first chapter, newlineIntroduction, gives a brief overview of the psychoanalytical theories proposed by newlineprominent psychoanalysts. It also includes biographical details of the author and newlineintroduces his fictional works newline