PSYCHE AND TRAUMA IN KHOURY’S THE GATE OF THE SUN: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY
Keywords:
Anxiety, Colonized, Conscious, Discrimination, Exiled, Helplessness, Holocaust, Human Rights, Intrusion, Marginalization, Memories, Post Colonialism, Psychoanalytical, Terror, TraumaAbstract
Trauma is observed not as a singular phenomenon. It is wide-ranging and heterogeneous in its nature. The history of many Middle Eastern countries defines a number of sadistic episodes that caused the war and traumatic. Survival of the indigenous peoples. The consequences of socio-political disorders to world war, colonization, decolonization and the forcefully migrating the people to some other territory. Therefore, the war, in a way, is the product of violence or ethnic conflicts. In the present research, certain subject the histories of occupation and indentured labour. The experience of continuous war and the “politics of dispassion” the ideologies of homeland nation, the culture of natives, the politics of multiculturalism. the predicament of minorities and issues relating to be master regarding the concerns of trauma, survival and war are investigated in Khoury Gate of the Sun. war is a key term in colonial and post 1948 fiction and theory. It undefinably brings about profound changes in the demographics, culture, epistemologies, and politics of the world. The emphasis on trauma, survival, and war in Gate of the SUN by Khoury, as opposed to belonging, or residence, Fanon theory of violence and Herman concept of trauma, strengthens the research of objective.
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