A psychoanalytic insight in to Henry Kyemba's A state of blood ; The inside story of Idi Amin

Abstract

This paper entitled “A Psychoanalytical Insight into Henry Kyemba’s A State of Blood: The Inside Story" investigates how Idi Amin Dada’s defragmented childhood memories like blood culture from maternal relatives and the overall environment played crucial role to ruin his mindset, which established him as a psychopath leader who killed a number of people and preserved the dead body and head to eat by peeling their flesh in different pieces. This study seeks to look into the causes of the psychologically sick personality of idi Amin, who thinks he can get pleasure from his terrible work. Idi Amin’s activities, behavior, attitudes and his dialogue in the A State of Blood picture him as an insane character. His ambition to become president of Uganda seems to have added fuel to his psychologically illness. In this research work, the researcher focuses on analyzing the ambition, activities of Idi Amin through the theoretical concept of Sigmund Freud’s Uncanny and the Structure of Unconscious Mind, and chain of signifier by Jacques Lacan. Therefore, it can be analysed that the uncanny behavior and practices were the consequences of the unconscious repressed desires resulted by his upbringing. Key Words: leader, pleasure, psychopath, uncanny, unconscious