A psychological reading of Jonathan Safran Foer’s extremely loud and incredibly close

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This article deals with the psychoanalytic analysis of Jonathan Safran Foer’s extremely loud and incredibly close.

the novel tackles the issue of the 9 / 11 attacks and the aftermath of this latter on people who survived it or those who had lost their relatives in the incident.

the article argues that the main characters represented by Oskar, his grandfather and grandmother suffer from trauma and melancholia.

the psychological analysis in the article is based on the studies and experimentations of Sigmund Freud.

the article tries to illustrate the necessity of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings as a cure against mental illnesses, in this case, trauma and melancholia.