Social Sciences

Special Issue

Literature & Psychology

  • Submission Deadline: 30 October 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Tinni Dutta
About This Special Issue
Great writers have intuitively known everything what psychology could prove clinically and scientifically. A Psychoanalytically and Psychodynamically Oriented Study is a stimulating introduction to a new interdisiciplinary approach in literary criticism linking psychology and literature.In this issue analysis would be done psychodynamically from Freudian, Jungian, and perspectives from Ego Psychology. Content and dynamic analysis of poetries and stories would be highlighted. Finally parallals would be sited and creative processes of poets and writers would be ascertained by a highly valued trancformation of the poets’ desires, needs, anxieties, and defences through a process of sublimation within the cultural contexts of their creations
Lead Guest Editor
  • Tinni Dutta

    Department of Psychology, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Published Articles
  • Psychodynamics of an Author

    Debanjana Basu

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 19-22
    Received: 10 September 2015
    Accepted: 11 September 2015
    Published: 27 January 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.15
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    Abstract: The psychodynamics of the writer, Sudha Murty, have been observed through the discourse. Two of her literary works, Death Without Grief and A Wedding To Remember have been selected for this purpose from her book “Wise and Otherwise” published in 2002. In one story, the author tries to depict the insignificance of death. The subjective connotation o... Show More
  • Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das - A Comparative Study

    Shaona Sengupta , Tinni Dutta

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 14-18
    Received: 12 August 2015
    Accepted: 14 August 2015
    Published: 13 January 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.14
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    Abstract: Of all the living beings, man is the only being who has been able to express his emotions explicitly in many forms. Emotions for other fellow beings, nature and self have been expressed by man in various creative forms. As man is creative in nature and has always expressed his emotions through music, art, philosophy and literature. Thus, literature... Show More
  • The Reality of the Fractured Psyche as Represented in “Grass Is Singing”

    Nilanjana Bagchi

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 9-13
    Received: 19 October 2015
    Accepted: 5 November 2015
    Published: 17 December 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.13
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    Abstract: In her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in 1950, Doris Lessing, a British writer borrows the title of this novel from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land where she gradually unravels the apparent dreariness of romantic connotations of the title in reality. The novel, gradually unfolds the disintegration of the coherent “self” of Mary Turner, the protago... Show More
  • Revisiting Tagore’s “Shishu Bholanath” in the Light of Dynamic Flow

    Bithi Ahiri

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 5-8
    Received: 22 July 2015
    Accepted: 29 July 2015
    Published: 20 October 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.12
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    Abstract: At its heart—psychodynamic approach conceptualized that overtly manifested behavior, emotion and feeling are intermingled with the underlying covert psychological processes and early experiences. Early life experiences along with the flow of internal energies develop numerous blowing capitals that ultimately reconstruct one’s personality through di... Show More
  • Fragrance of Narcissism – A Comparison Between Eastern and Western Concepts

    Chatterjee Sraboni

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 26 July 2015
    Accepted: 16 August 2015
    Published: 20 October 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.11
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    Abstract: Love and life are the two sides of a coin. But the form of love is not same everywhere. It is manifested through different colours and connotations and as a result sometimes it comes as a sweet fragrance of a flower and sometimes its forms become destructive. Narcissism or self-love can be channelized in both ways. In this paper an attempt has been... Show More