Spiritual Awakening in Manisha Koirala’s Healed
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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