DREAMS AND TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN SEHRISH HUSSAIN'S HIDDEN FIRES.
Keywords:
Bullying, Displacement, Identity, Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational TraumaAbstract
This research paper probes into sehrish Hussain's work Hidden fires which Elucidate upon the transformation of past trauma across generations. It insights that dreams play potent role in psychological and physiological behaviors of protagonists demonstrating repressed thoughts and pulverized memories of partition war 1947. The disruption, loss and displacement faced by the protagonist in history finds it's way through imagery of dreams and scenery of sudden hallucinations caused by unconscious suppressed agony. Cathy Caruth theory of trauma under the refuge of Freud's dream psycoaynalsis mirror's yousaf's trauma with his granddaughter's Rubi's modern identity loss experiences Rubi encountered body shame bullying in public subsequently she feels lost and hallucinated as same chaotic condition protagonist yousaf has. The paper also deals with perspective that distortion in current memory and repetition of actions psychoaynalyticaly in 'unconscious' way derived from these commotion of traumatic memories. The shared experiences of grandfather to granddaughter led this gap of research towards highlighted healing prospects.
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