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Traumatic Experience in Psychoanalytical PerspectivesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The current dissertation is concerned with poetic images as a result of the traumatic experience in the poetry of Bly and Walker from the view of psycho- analytical perspectives. Accordingly, the study bases its analysis on the traumatic experience, Alice walker and Robert Bly’s psychic images that are proposed in the title dissertation . The entire dissertation depicts the aspects of traumatic experience in the theories of Freud, Klein, Segal, Caruth, Lacan and others. These psychoanalytical theories pay special attention to the integration of one’s identity through using psychic images that come directly from influential experience and how such images are deeply rooted in the poetry of Walker and Bly. By exploring the life and poetry of the two poets, it can be observed that the most prominent feature in their poetry is the use of psychic images which reflect their painful experiences. Bly’s traumatic experience comes from the father- son relationship as he confesses that he enjoyed a good relationship with his mother not with his father. The second traumatic experience which shapes Bly’s poetic career is that after graduating from Harvard, he had to accept many low-paid jobs. Bly led a life of poverty and isolation. Yet, it was a journey of self-imposed loneliness directed toward life and self-understanding. Bly made best use of his time of solitude to deepen his poetic talent, to practice writing and gain momentum to set off in his literary career. Correspondingly, Walker’s traumatic experience comes from her environment as being one of the southern black women who struggles to escape from poverty and social oppressions. These social conditions prevent black women from realizing their identity. Walker’s inner struggle gives her strength and self-awareness to search for identity for black women. She discusses such traumatic experiences as racialism, violence, and cruelty, in her poems. Accordingly, the two poets use poetry as a way to express their traumatic experiences and to reveal the unconscious psychic images that haunted them throughout their poetic career. Furthermore, the current dissertation sheds light on the two poets’ personal lives in an attempt to reveal the ulterior motives behind these experiences.