Unravelling identity: A Study of Psychoanalytic Conflicts of Shamsie’s Home Fire

Author(s) : Snober Gull & Rana Sameen

Abstract:

Abstract
This research aims at unveiling the struggle involved in search of individuals’ identity and also highlights the burden of hardships and sense of betrayal in a person’s life. The focus of this learning is to assess Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire in the bright of Erich Fromm’s (1994) analytical philosophy through which the characters will be analyzed, that how they suffer from identity crisis and how the psychoanalytical conflicts are portrayed through them. Home fire tackles the story of migrated people in a foreign land where they feel alienated. Therefore, the researcher has focused on self decentredness as enunciated by Fromm (1994) and is deciphered in the characters of the novel. The current learning is momentous in highlighting the psychological issues which the people face after migration. The findings of the study elucidate the existence of psychological conflicts hence, these conflicts along with identity crisis prohibit the main characters to live their idealized version of life. The selected novel can also be analyzed from the perspective of trauma and post colonialism.
Keywords: Identity, psychological conflicts, decentredness, identity crisis.