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Volume 17:1 January 2017
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The Role of the Unconscious in Vikas Swarup’s Q & A: An Analysis

Dr. C. Ramya Ravikumar, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


Abstract

Unconscious, the repressed wishes and drives govern the psychic behavior of the humans and determine the personality development of the individuals. The innate drives and desires accumulate in the Unconscious mind and when it comes in conflict with the conscious mind, there comes the psychic disturbances like anxiety, depression, etc… Hence, in order to understand one’s own true self or the self of others it is an ultimate option of knowing and exploring the Unconscious with the help of Freud’s theories and interpretations, this article analyses the behavior, experience and cognition of the characters of Vikas Swarup’s Celebrated Novel, Q & A.

Keywords: Human Psyche, Unconscious, Freud, Behavior, Experience and Cognition

The Puzzle of Human Beings

"What is suppressed continues to exist in normal people as well as
abnormal, and remains capable of psychical functioning" (TIOD 768)

True to the words of Sigmund Freud, for centuries over centuries, right after the birth of civilization, human beings have puzzled over human beings. Understanding human psyche, either one’s own self or the others’, is an art or most of the catastrophes occur only because people lacked mastery over it. "I’m not to blame; Zeus and fate and fury stalking through the night, they are the ones who drove the savage madness in my heart" says king Agamemnon in Iliad. He claims that it is not the act of his own self but just a’ savage madness’ for which he is not responsible. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, puts it that it is a force that serves as an agency in performing the act through him. Freud calls it "Unconscious" that governs the psychic behavior. He stresses that the unconscious wishes are always active and ready for expression whenever they find an opportunity to unite themselves with an emotion from conscious life, and that they transfer their greater intensity to the lesser intensity of the latter.

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Lecturer in English
Department of English
Thiagarajar College
Madurai 625 0009
Tamilnadu
India
rramyachelliah@gmail.com
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