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Psychoanalytical Analysis of the Movie,
Amar Singh Chamkila

Suresh Kumar


Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Singh_Chamkila_(film)

Abstract

Humans are social animals and in this respect, they are bound to adhere to the norms of society. Socio-cultural norms prove crucial in maintaining decorum and harmony in society. If anyone does something which is against the codes of society is poked by various forces. In Freudian sense human behaviour is governed by three factors i.e. ego, superego and Id. Id represents all the desires whereas superego represents morality, values and ethics; and being social animals, the mind human beings use is ego which strikes a balance between the two i.e. Id and superego. This research paper explores how the abundance of Id results into clashes with the forces of ideology and power in the movie, Amar Singh Chamkila. This paper also showcases that how the unconsciousness of the masses has been revealed under the predominating influence of superego. Besides this, it projects the protagonist struggling for survival attempting improvisation ranging from immoral songs, sublimation, devotional lyrics amidst the complex web of socio-cultural milieu sacrificing his life eventually.

Keywords: Amar Singh Chamkila, Socio-cultural norms, Ego, superego, Id, ideology, power, survival, sublimation.

Sigmund Freud divides the human mind of the psyche into three parts i.e. the ego, the superego and the id. The ego is the conscious mind. We use and work with this mind. We are aware of this mind in the present most of the time. It is the conscious mind that mediates between the unconscious id and superego to make decisions and rational thoughts. The Superego can be called our conscience. It represents socio-cultural values, ethics and morality. It influences the way the conscious works. The id is Sigmund Freud's favourite territory. The id is the area of instincts, dreams, and desires, and all that does not come to the fore in our consciousness, is unconscious. (Nayar 65)

A significant term emphasized by Freud is 'sublimation', where the repressed material is promoted into something grander or disguised as something noble (Bary 93). The artist person, for example, possesses an especially high degree of power to sublimate for example to shift the instinctual drives from their original sexual goals to nonsexual ‘higher’ goals, including the goal of becoming proficient as an artist. In simple words, an individual possesses the ability to shift socially unaccepted content into socio-cultural wilful acceptance. It is an ability to elaborate fantasized wish fulfilments into the manifest features of a work of art in a way that conceals or deletes their personal elements. This makes them capable of satisfying the unconscious desires that other people share with the individual artist.

The opening scene of the movie, Amar Singh Chamkila presents the crowd of the audience (men) in the pandal [temporary shed] whereas the women eagerly wait on the roofs of the nearby houses for the arrival of their singing stars i.e. Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot whom Chamkkeela calls Babbi at Mehsumpur near Jalandhar (Punjab) in India. Though collapsing of the slab of the house due to the overload of women can seem an exaggeration for cinematic effect, but an attempt has also been made to show the craze of the fans of the Chamkila couple.

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Suresh Kumar
Assistant Professor, SLET, UGC-NET
Department of English
Govt. College Indora, 176401
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India
Email: vijaysuresh8890@gmail.com
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