Exploration of Psychosexual Relations in Khushwant Singh's Paradise and Other Stories

Abstract

Present study discloses the psychosexual elements in the story collection Paradise and Other Stories by Khushwant Singh. From the research it can be concluded that desire of the people is like one of the parts of the human body which born with human body and develop with human being and is expressed in different forms from oral phase to genital phase. If such desire or libido is not sublimated, then there may be chaos, disorder, no progress, violence in the society, and instead of marching to the competitive globalization it leads to the place of emptiness, nowhere, elsewhere since id and eros make the people just for lust. However, it gives sublime during gratification/orgasm. But it doesn‘t mean that desire of an individual is always negative and wrong, desire of an individual can make extra ordinary and immortal, if it is sublimated. Since, desire is the useful substance to do something and to be something, normalization of the id, eros or desire by gratifying or reflecting in the form of art.