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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 Psychosexual Confrontation in The Grass is Singing(Department of English, 2006) Sharma, Ram ChandraThe Grass is Singingis a complex psychological and social analysis. It explores the human psyche presenting a commentary on race relation in imperial Rhodesia. It is viewed as an exposition of the timeless dichotomy of culture and nature and its impact on the characters. The present thesis makes a study ofMary, the protagonist, exploring her psyche. Exploration of psyche has been analyzed on the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis. She is made to realize her sexuality and sex by the white male dominated society which she negates and accepts at the same time, is the manifestation of her psychosexual conflict. Dick, her husband neglects her desire that leads her to extend her relation with Moses, the black boy, but fails to have completion due to the interference of a racist society. The strained relation between them creates a conflict and finally results in Mary’s murder by Moses.`