قصة "أسماك البر المتوحش" : مقاربة نفسية تحليلية

Abstract EN

The present paper is a psychological study of the contemporary Algerian story, in which a set of stories by Wassini Al-Aradj entitled “the Fish of the Dangerous Sea” serves as a model.

The study attempts to reveal the inner depth of the stories’ writer and to find out the concealed meanings of the text through a psychological analysis of the characters of the stories.

From the title and its indication, the stories’ psychological phenomena such as the feeling ofgrief and the bitterness of loss experienced by some characters, the feeling of hostility and underestimation, shame and familial and social repulsion, vengeance tendencies, the desire to own, megalomania, negativeness, and the inability of self-defense, the impossibility of getting separated from the mother, and indulging immensely in dream and imagination, the nature of the stories’ characters gets revealed as well as the role they play.

Such an undertaking was preceded by an introductory historical survey of the relationship between literature and psychology, that ofliterary criticism with psychology through what is called literary psychology and the critical studies conducted by the psycho-analysis school on literature and literary criticism as well as the benefits literature has gained from psychology thanks to many modern and contemporary critical tendencies