The study attempts to prove the reality of the psyche having its own laws to work through. Out of these laws, the whole world view around the individuals is determined. The three selected novels; Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines (1988), Adeline-Yen-Mah's Chinese Cinderella (1999), and Richard Russo's Empire Falls (2001) assure the aptness of the Jungian assumptions. Every novel explicates the psychology of its own society and the way it gives this nation its own position among other countries either as superior or inferior.
The dissertation investigates selected works from the South Asian and the American fiction to be objects of the analysis in order to show that psychology of the individual is a model of the psychology of his/her own nation, and how this psychological formula not only identifies or determines its nation's position but can also change it. The research uses the Jungian theory to prove the role of the complex of inferiority inside South Asian nations in giving them an intensive power to become among the greatest countries all over the world after long ages of occupation and wars. On the other side, the research tends to prove the negative role of the complex of superiority within the American nation which might lead to their downfall. |
