Spiritual Awakening in Manisha Koirala’s Healed

Abstract

In this research, the biography Healed by Manisha Koirala is observed using a working psychoanalytical approach. Biography is observed as an important factor in engaging the reader on a personal level with the experience of trauma. By surveying Manisha Koirala’s Healed co-written by Neelam Kumar’s use of imagery and language, this study will examine how Neelam employs literary methods that imitate the psychological processes regarding how trauma is communicated to the waking state from the unconscious. In order to examine the psychological metamorphosis of Manisha Koirala depicted through words, theories of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth and Dori Laub that involves the unconscious and the means it used to form psychological structure capable of finding a place within the waking state, other conscious. The resulting testimony of the novel that arises as the result of these processes is also observed. This study concludes that Neelam’s use of these literary methods functions to obligate the reader to involve themselves in the process of trauma and its resolution. Abstract: trauma, awakening, literary devices, repetition, psychology, memory