Insearch of Peace and Egalitarian Social Order: A Humanistic Psychological Reading of Facing My Phantoms

Abstract

Facing My Phantoms, a novel by Sheeba Shah deals with the female protagonist's account of marital and family bliss shattered by the Maoist insurgency. It explores the repressed human needs, violence and traumatized condition of characters because they can't balance specific needs between feudalism and egalitarian society. This project focuses the fragmented psyche of characters with the victims of a decade long Maoist insurgency. They are in hope of securing peace and egalitarian social order after actualization of self and merging of different visions. They are suffered as an outcome of negligence of government towards poor, biased human nature, dependency and narrowness. These are root causes of insecurity, conflict and insurgency in Nepalese society. Then, characters move into disintegration. However, with the anticipation of reconciliation, the creation of a peaceful and egalitarian social order arises with the highest level of satisfaction and the fulfillment of basic as well as additional needs of the people.