Jayanth Anto Vijay, J and John Suganya, M (2021) An Anatomization of Incestuous behavior: Psychological reasons for Incest in the novels The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha - A comparative study. n Anatomization of Incestuous behavior: Psychological reasons for Incest in the novels The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha - A comparative study, 8 (12). pp. 112-122. ISSN 2349-5162

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Abstract

This article limelight’s incest, on the most widely prohibited and undesired taboos, which indicates a relationship that involves sexual encounters between close family members, like father-daughter, mother-son and brother-sister. African-American writer, Toni Morrison, through her rustic and bold portrayal of incestuous relationship, between a father and his daughter in The Bluest Eye, shook the readers who find the discussion of such taboos to be repugnant. Here, Morrison tries to portray the father Cholly Breedlove’s character in such a way that the readers feel sympathetic towards him because of his distressing past that affects his psychosis and leads to incestuous behaviour. In this same manner, Raj Kamal Jha sheds light on the incest between a brother and his elder sister which is an embodiment of concern between each other, through his award winning novel, The Blue Bedspread. With the help of Sigmund Freud’s theory of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Models of Human Psyche, the reasons for the incestuous behaviour of the characters Cholly Breedlove and Pecola in The Bluest Eye and the narrator and his elder sister in The Blue Bedspread is deduced.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Incest, Psychoanalysis, Models of Human Psyche, Reality and Pleasure principles, Id, Ego, Super- ego.
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of English
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2024 07:16
Last Modified: 10 Jan 2024 07:16
URI: http://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/2093

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