Dialectics of Erosand Thanatosin Ammaraj Joshi’s A Night’s Drama

Abstract

This thesis explores the dialectics of life and death in Ammaraj Joshi’s A Night’s Dramafrom the perspective of Freudian psychoanalysis, especially through the lens of Eros and Thanatos. Although Joshi’s stories are the reflections of Nepalese socio-cultural realities, his dramatization of human sexuality and human deaths gives the logic that the whole collection is an inquiry into human instinctual drives of Eros and Thanatos. Juxtaposition of the life drive and the death drive makes it possible to analyze the text from the psychoanalytical theories and to study how the instinctual forces of human psychology functions as the ultimate source of all human activities, attitudes, behaviours and ways of thinking as they are implied in Joshi’s stories.