A psychoanalytic reading of Ahmed Saadawi's novel Frankenstein in Baghdad
Other Title(s)
قراءة لرواية أحمد سعداوي فرانكشتاين في بغداد من منظور التحليل النفسي
Author
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa
Source
[Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]
Issue
Vol. 2023, Issue 37، ج. 1 (31 Jan. 2023), pp.67-96, 30 p.
Publisher
Cairo University Faculty of Arts-Khartoum Branch
Publication Date
2023-01-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
30
Main Subjects
English Language and Literature
Topics
Abstract AR
هذا البحث هو قراءة لرواية أحمد سعداوي فرانكشتاين في بغداد من منظور التحليل النفسي.
يسبر البحث مشكلة ما يمكن تسميته بالانشطارات النفسية.
فشخصيات الرواية، على اختلافها، يجمعهم قاسم مشترك وهو انشطار الذات.
فكل شخصية هي في حقيقتها شخصيتين مختلفتين، وهذا ما يلقي البحث الضوء عليه.
المنهج النقدي المتبع في الدراسة هو منهج التحليل النفسي ويهدف إلى الكشف عن علة منتشرة بين عموم الشعب العراقي كما تصوره الرواية.
هذه العلة هي انشطار الذات والتي تجعل من كل شخصية شخصان مختلفان.
يجيب البحث عن ثلاث أسئلة: كيف تكشف رواية أحمد سعداوي فرانكشاين في بغداد عن انشطارات الذات كما هو الحال بالنسبة للعميد سرور ومحمود السوادي وعلي باهر السعيدي واليشوا والشسمه؟ من هو الشسمه؟ إلى أي مدى يمكن وصف ظاهرة انشطار الذات هذه بكونها لا وعي جمعي؟.
Abstract EN
The characters in Ahmad Saadawi’s novel Frankenstein in Baghdad experience a state of psychic splits.
this paper aims, as the title promises, to provide a psychoanalytic reading of the novel.
it delves deep into the psyches of the characters to elaborate on how the characters suffer from psychic splits that rift each of the characters into two different people, this is applicable to almost all the characters in the novel.
foremost among these are brigadier Sorour Magid, Mahmoud al-Sawadi, Saidi, Hadi the junk dealer, elIshva and the what is its name.
each of these, among others, is psychoanalytically divided into two.
this turns out to be a phenomenon that engulfs almost all of the characters in the novel and can, therefore, be dubbed “collective unconscious”.
readers will, more often than not, see a profile of the characters.
through this reading of the novel, however, the two psyches of each personality are exposed and this provides a venue for better understanding of the novel.
psychoanalysis is the critical approach adopted.
the paper avails itself from the theories, concepts and ideas of such psychoanalytic critics as sigmund freud, jacques lacan and carl g.
jung.
the paper responds to the following three questions: how is a.
saadawi’s novel frankenstein in baghdad exposing of the state of psychic splits the characters, and the iraqi people at large, have been experiencing? who is the whatisitsname? to what extent can the overwhelming state of split identities, as depicted in the novel, be described, in c.
jung’s terms, as collective unconscious?
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. 2023. A psychoanalytic reading of Ahmed Saadawi's novel Frankenstein in Baghdad. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]،Vol. 2023, no. 37، ج. 1, pp.67-96.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1518501
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. A psychoanalytic reading of Ahmed Saadawi's novel Frankenstein in Baghdad. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research] No. 37, p. 1 (2023), pp.67-96.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1518501
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Laythi, Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa. A psychoanalytic reading of Ahmed Saadawi's novel Frankenstein in Baghdad. [Wadi El-Nile Journal for Human, Social and Educational Studies and Research]. 2023. Vol. 2023, no. 37، ج. 1, pp.67-96.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1518501
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references: p. 95-96
Record ID
BIM-1518501