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Item Anxiety and repressed impulses of Dickens’s Characters in A Tale of Two Cities(Department of English, 2010) Raut, Ram NarayanAbstract The present research has analyzed the novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens from the angle of psychoanalysis. This study examines the anxiety and repressed impulses in the manners and behaviors of the people who are involved in the class conflict. It studies human sentiment and sensibility, and clarifies the fact that excessive repression of feelings and emotions compels a person to become the slave of human impulses. Most of the characters in the novel repress their impulses due to the fear of cruel and barbaric punishment given by the tyrannical government and oppressors. Dr. Mannette’s mental disorder and Madame Defarge as well as other characters’ animalistic manners and criminal actions prove the fact that their present miserable, despondent and painful conditions are the result of terrible anxiety and repressed impulses. Repression of impulses helps to dominate the human’s good virtues and it also makes them bold and mentally strong by activating their hidden internal forces and unconscious demonic natures of human being which are clearly depicted in the characters’ attitudes in the novel.Item Brotherhood in Crisis in Forster's the Longest Journey(Department of English, 2006) Silwal, GokulRickie Elliot, the protagonist of E.M. Forster'sThe Longest Journey, initially shows hatred towards his brother Stephen but it turns into love immediately when he comes to know that Stephen is his half-brother from mother's side rather than his father's son. This shift of attitude reveals his attraction towards his mother and repulsion towards his father. His repressed desire gets an outlet with this fact, then he accepts Stephen as a substitute to his dead mother rather than a brother and this after all puts their brotherhood in crisis.Item Childhood Experience and Neurosis in Lessing's The Grass is Singing(Faculty of English, 2012) Gurung, Dok KumariNot AvailableItem Claustrophobic Anxiety in Emma Donoghue’s Room(Faculty of English, 2014) Panta, BharatThe thesis, at hand, analyzes Emma Donoghue’s novel Room from the perspectives of claustrophobic anxiety. Claustrophobic anxiety is a kind of phobic anxiety which is related to the fear of an enclosed place. The claustrophobic anxiety is caused due to the protagonist’s oedipal desire to have his genital well into the uterus of mother so that it will have its right space inside her. But as he desires this, he suffers anxiety that he might get locked up inside and harm him when the father will exercise his legitimate power over his mother’s body. In the novel, Old Nick, the father, is having a forced relationship with his mother since her 19th years, keeping her under secluded place, and Jack is born under such a claustrophobic condition. This is where he develops unconscious love for mother and fears attack or invasion by his father. This thesis is divided into four different chapters each of which highlights the claustrophobic condition experienced by the protagonists and their efforts to relieve from it. The thesis concludes that the actual cause of claustrophobic anxiety on part of Jack is nothing but his own oedipal drive for his mother. And the very claustrophobic anxiety guides and controls their fate throughout the novel.Item The Dream Screen in The Moviegoer: A Psychoanalytical Reading of the Text.(Department of English, 2007) Bashyal, Dipak PrasadThe research explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. It studies the dream screen of the protagonist, Binx Bolling in which he shows strange kind of abnormal activities. Obsessed with the lack, i.e. the lack of mother, he indulges himself in different activities like recollecting the past events, frequently going to the movies, and always seeking the company of women. He directs himself to "the search" about which he himself doesn't know. He always sees the present in relation with the past and always desires to go to the past. In the name of search he is escaping from the world. Finally he comes to realize that the past is unachievable and decides to go with 'everydayness', the present.Item Exploration of Subjectivity: Psychonalytical Study on Philip Roth’sThe Dying Animal(Central Department of English, 2011) Paudel, RajendraThis research is an attempt to show the exploration of man’s mind filled with repression expressing the wishes and desires for young girls in Philip Roth’sThe Dying Animal. It consists of an alteration of sexual gratification through the sublimation of repressed desires of the protagonist David Kepesh, an authorial character of the text, the marginalized existence of Kepesh as dying animal due to social denial, expression of his melancholic condition through the medium of creative writing. In this traumatic realism, the protagonist’s psychology is filled up with the sense of loss, pain, and lamentation because of his problem of aging. Due to the age gap between David Kepesh and his beautiful young beloved, Consuela Castillo, the protagonist can’t have emotional love affair with her. As a marginalized man, his emotional love affair is denied by the social standards of morality and propriety. Because of the overwhelming realities of aging and loss in his psyche, he is expressing jealousy in the version of pornography. Thus, the researcher has exposed the exploration of protagonist’s identity and subjectivity in Roth’sThe Dying Animal.Item Exploration of Two Aspects of an Individual: A Psychological Reading of Of Mice and Men(Department of English, 2007) Acharya, MadhavSteinbeck'sOf Mice and Menis thestory of two psychologically intricate characters, whose personalities blend with one another so intimately that they sediment down to form an admixture of two extreme psychological poles and express independently and yet live as each other's compliment. In their apparently independent existence, we can explore the two aspects of the same individual. They are George, the intellectual pole and Lennie, the physical pole-two timeless characters who are but integrally one. George, quick dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features is the intellectual part, who caters the man's sensitivity to the present and vision for the future. He has a strong presence of mind and a wonderfully critical reading of the society and its ways. He is highly sensitive of his security and that of his friend, who is dependent on him for his existence. Lennie, his huge friend, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes with wide slopping shoulders is the animal part, highly inspired by his sensual instincts. He knows no rule and convention. He has a poor memory and an extremely poor estimate of the present or of the future. But he remembers every bit of the vision if it involves a part of his dream of feeling the soft things–be it the fur of rabbit or dogs, or women for that member. The sensual instincts in him are so potent that he fails to estimate the present and foresee the dangerous ramifications it is likely to bring forth. Hence he is a constant source of problems, and ultimately carves his own destiny in the form of death. He is highly animalistic in nature. Standing at the two extremes of the psychological poles, George and Lennie compliment and live for each other. George is always ready to look for the safety of his friend and deliver him out of dangers if theycome along his way. He does all the intellectual works including weaving dreams, and Lennie cherishes them. Lennie gives an intimate company to the homeless and lonely George in every pursuit he undertakes. In short the two men live as two but one.Item Failure of the Superego in Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train(Department of English, 2021) Magar, SaraswotiThis research paper deals with failure of moral structures in Paula Hawkins’s 2015 novel,The Girl on the Train. The novelist depicts modern British society in the text to make her claims regarding the fall of standard moral values in their society. The female characters live a very difficult life in which they face problems. This research paper studies the events and the behaviour of the characters who are guided by the repressed libidinal contents in the id. This study has taken Freudian model of psychoanalysis to study the novel. Freud has divided human personality into three elements Id, Ego and Superego. Ego plays a role of mediator to create balance between these two id primitive drives and superego moral and social drives. This study draws on morality of the characters that fails to adjust the subject in society.Item George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss: A study of psychosexuality(Department of English, 2011) Gautam, JiwanIn the novel The Mill on the Floss, Eliot’s main characters are involved in psychosexual issues. When we delve into the history and context of the text, Eliot’s prime time, we find the Victorian age which deals with various matters in which sex and sexuality stands at top. Being an autobiographical novel of Eliot, she has presented Maggie as herself. Maggie the central character, stands at the centre of psychosexuality and moves the wheel around. Eliot thus explains love, sentiment, sex and sexuality and physical relation of that time. Eliot’s prime concern in this novel is to bring out the social and familial relation and problems. She explains how a little girl opposes and fights with the male ruled society. She also describes the problems she has met and focuses upon the ultimate result which is always unaccepted by the society. Maggie is perfect in her place to love and to be loved, to be played by the destiny. As Maggie, Eliot’s other characters are also the victim of sexuality and psychosexuality. All the characters thus try to fulfill their desires by involvements, seduction and intrigues.Item Hedda as a Neurotic Personality in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler(Department of English, 2009) Chand, JyotiIbsen’s Hedda Gabler is the story of a psychologically intricate character, who is in search of her existence. Hedda is a female character but doesn’t want to define herself in this personality. As she is grown up in man’s world, she acts totally in male way. This obsession grows in her and she is ultimately put face to face with the regulative modes of patriarchy. She seems like a pendulum between male and female biological urges, but can not become male or female. Hedda’s attraction towards masculinity and repression of her female biological urges leads her in the path of frustration, desolation and becomes a victim of neurosis. And due to her entrapment between dual personality finally she ends her tension through suicide.Item Movement from Innocence to Experience in Henry James’ What Maisie Knew(Central Department of English, 2007) Roca, DipakIn Henry James’ What Maisie Knew, an attempt has been made to analyze a move from innocence age to experience by its major character Maisie Farrange. Every human being leads a life of innocence which is supposed to be directed by unconsciousness and gradually experience brings the consciousness in the human mind, and the same is the case with Maisie too. At the very beginning of the novel, the protagonist is an innocent child, rooted in unconsciousness. When she faces the social and familial limitation, challenges and obstacles, she becomes conscious of her individual identity and her relation with the members of the family and others.Item Ned Kelly as Oedipal Personality in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang(Department of English, 2018) Rimal, BikramThe present study deals with the mother-son relationship and the emotions involved in this complex love-bond depicted in the life of the protagonist Ned Kelly in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang.Oedipus complex is the dominant theme of the Peter Carey’s novel.The complex centers on relation between Ned Kelly and his mother. His relationship will be studied in the light of psychoanalytical theory.Throughout his life, he was very close with his mother.He was deeply in love with his mother and almost all of the troubles he went through were rooted in that love.He showed hostility towards his father as well as her lovers.Moreover, he tried to find a woman who is similar to his mother in many respects. After the death of his father, he took the role of him.That’s why, we see True History of the Kelly Gangas a novel having Oedipal theme. This research is aimed at finding out Oedipus complex symptoms in the main character,Ned Kelly.It is a character analysis that employs Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theory of Oedipus complex symptoms. It shows how oedipal symptoms appear in Ned Kelly.Item Obsession to Death in Dickinson's Selected Poems(Faculty of English, 2014) Singh, Sunil ManThis research explores obsession to death in Dickinson's selected poems through the perspective of psychoanalysis. It mainly tries to find out the theme of life and death through her obsession to death in her poems. It systematically explains obsession, obsession to death, her lifestyle and works and thematic contents of her poems. It considers theoretical perspective of psychoanalysis, its relation to death, the death instinct and obsession. In analyzing her poems, the research revolves around the ideas, expressions and experiences that frequently appear in her poems. She often finds death obsessive because it takes away the life of her relatives, friends and her dearly loved ones. She equally interacts with faith in the life and death that also keeps her interactive in her whole life. She uses such techniques in her poems which also reveal similar theme of obsession to death because it reflects upon the countdowns of the life. At last, this research understands her poems through obsession to death giving meanings of life and death and finds that it is the encountering of the deaths of her near and dear ones which are reflected in her poems.Item Paranoid Response in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin(Department of English, 2008) Gyanwali, Madan KumarThis thesis is a study into Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin. It studies the novel's title character, Pnin who acts in a paranoid state due to his frequent deferral of hopes as he cannot adjust himself in the new surroundings in America. The dissimilarities between his hopes and the catastrophes lead him to the paranoid state of mind. He hopes for one thing, but there ensues the opposite. He mutters to himself in the great deal. Paranoia leads him to the schizophrenic condition and the absentmindedness. The cause behind his paranoia is not other than the antagonistic relation to his hopes and the real state of his life.Item Parent-Child Relationship: A Study of Psychological Impact of Stories in Hajuraamako Lauro(Department of English, 2018) Kshetri, Samiksha PanditThis research entitled “Parent-Child Relationship: A Study of Psychological Impact of Stories in Hajuraamako Lauro”. This research reports the parenting process of child through Ramdev Pandey’s child literature book. Parenting is psychological issue. This paper focuses on the psychological connection between the elder generations and children. Grandparents are experienced. So their role is to bring next generation towards bright future. This study has tried to show what great parenting in family is. Good parenting is disappearing in societies. It is very demanding issue today. The stories are narrated by grandparents in most of the societies which carry different impacts in child psychic. It has importance in various cultures for guiding new generation. The issue of grand parenting is discussed by different scholars through various logics but the researcher has tried to focus on the hidden intension of grand parenting and its importance in different societies. Mutual understanding hardly can be found between child and parents today. So the aim of this study fills the gap of good parenting is necessary for the entire development of the children. Furthermore, it also has studied about good parenting is succeed in those family where elder generations are prioritized. Elderly people understand the psychology of children through their experience. Their experiences are narrated as stories for child. So the storytelling is necessary job for today’s generation to lead them towards cultural values and on right path. Thus oral tradition is helpful for raring and caring children to lead them towards moral ethics. Keywords: Psychology, Grandparents, Grandchild, Psychoanalysis, Parents, Stories, TechnologyItem Passion as a Governing Factor in Eddie Carbon’s Death in Arthur Miller’sA View From the Bridge(Department of English, 2007) Neupane, GayatriEddie Carbone is protective and helpfulin the beginningto his relatives who areItalian immigrantssuch asMarco and Rodolpho. In spite of his wife,Beatrice’s warning time and again, Eddie pays much attention to Catherine, his niece andshows Rodolpho and Marcoofviolating a code of behaviour with whichhe has previously identified himself. Eddie, an ordinary longshoreman is unconsciously in love with his niece--the daughter of his wife’s dead sister. Eddie does not understand why he opposes the marriage between Catherine and Rodolpho violently, nor do any of the other people who are involved. But Eddie’s real motive is the undeclared, unrecognized, unappeased hunger he has for Catherine himself and he topples the whole house down on himself in the catastrophic partof the play. Actually, Freudian Idbestrides Eddie Carbon’s being. His violent attitude stems from the overridingof his self by theIdpart of the mind.Item Repressed psychology in Doris Lessing's The fifth child(Department of English, 2008) Khatri, Mangal BahadurNot availableItem A Study of Oedipal Dynamics in to the Lighthouse(Department of English, 2008) Pokhrel, DipendraTo The Lighthouse is the most psychological of Virginia Woolf's novels. In this simple and haunting story, Woolf conflates the dynamics of the family Oedipus complex having developed love from mother by son and love from father by daughters. It is based on childhood and the children's perceptions, desires; Id-want, want, want when exploring adult rational part that is Ego and the lifting the lid of the unconscious through the stream of consciousness technique. The feeling of something uncanny in the novel is directly attached to the figure of the Lighthouse, that is to the idea of being lost or not found and not met.Item The Truce between Desire and Dignity in Philip Roth’s The Profess or of Desire(Department of English, 2021) Subedi, RameshThe current research entitled“The Truce between Dignity and Desire in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire”examines the issue of sexual feeling and desire of ahetero sexual male who loses morality and dignity This research aims to show the mental condition, irrationality, immorality, sexual vulgarity, and criminal mentality of the literary character a Jewish family in American cultural background. Under standing the issue of psychic desire will help my audience understand human behaviour in a better way.In order to the examiner and analyze psychic desire and its role in shaping human behaviour, this research applies concept of psychoanalysis.I have used sexuality, concepts of lacansmirror stage and the concept of repression and the concept of identity. This is a qualitative research based on library research and textual analysis. In this thesis, the concept of Psychic desire regarding the psychoanalysis theory developed by Sigmund Freud is applied. Based on the textual analysis of different critics and library based materials, the researcher finds that there isatruce between the desire and dignity. Keywords:psychic desire, psychoanalysis, dignity,identity, fetishism and seduction