The Significant Role of Trauma in Literature and Psychoanalysis

Abstract

Considerably, literature has influenced in the life of human being. It has an empowered language to display the inner world of man. There is a space for memories, introspection, retrospection, foreshadow, flashback and awful remembrances that are colored by pain, wound and trauma. Now is the time of producing the plot of anxiety in modern world. Margaret Atwood as a distinguished writer and poet criticizes the social, political, and spiritual bonds for female characters in her stories and poems. She has an aim to illustrate the pain and suffering of female characters in order to gain self knowledge of and self-confidence for women. In The Handmaid's Tale (1985),Cat's Eye (1988), and The Robber Bride (1993) she has elaborately examined her understanding of creativity in the dream, fantasy and art of the protagonists. She takes the data from the current emphasis on trauma, inter-subjectivity, mentalization, association, dissociation, nonlinear dynamic theory, and mental enactments. In conclusion, she discusses the effect of language on the developing self. She uses Sigmund Freud's views, as a psychoanalytic, of how the stormy life, difficult relationship with family, friends and not speaking cause the wound in female characters’ mind. trauma; Margaret Atwood; interdisciplinary; psychoanalysis

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