Psychological alienation in Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Abstract

This work has examined Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet from the psychoanalytical perspective to deal with the post-Holocaust experience of the protagonist, Mr. Sammler who goes through a severe sense of alienation because of his direct personal experience of the Holocaust atrocities during the Second World War. The wartime memories frequently haunt him as the senses and thoughts of death constantly come to his mind throughout his life. This makes him both mentally as well as physically alienated from family and society, leading him on the verge of insanity and death.