Study of Arun Joshi's Novels in a Psychoanalytical Approach

Authors

Rochana Bharadwaj, Dr. Aditi

Abstract

Identity crisis, alienated self, sociocultural pressures, the quest for identity, and the fight for equality are among the contemporary issues and subjects that Indian novelists writing in English are addressing. Unlike his predecessors, Arun Joshi does not write fiction for entertainment or to promote social or political causes. He explores the position of the modern man through book writing, particularly the reasons behind his actions and the psychological effects of those actions. By depicting diverse images of life from different places, current Indian fiction writers have been attempting to offer Indian English fiction a new form and color. One of the most talented authors of Indian fiction, Arun Joshi, portrays contemporary man as vacillating between hopelessness and illusion in his works. The many social contexts are used to illustrate and study various types of human relations. Arun Joshi's works help us understand the issues facing our society today, and they focus on the characters' psychological growth. All of his works now revolve around the Gandhian philosophy of self-sufficiency, which is regarded as the superstructure aspect of Indian society. In all of his books, Arun Joshi chronicles the protagonist's recurrent changes in emotions and mental states, each with a different level of focus. We will talk about it in this paper. analysis of Arun Joshi's books using a psychoanalytic lens.

Keywords

Novels, Psychoanalytical Approach, Self-Sufficient, Fiction, Literature, English Poetry, Indi-Anglican Writers, Protagonist, the Strange Case of Billy Biswas, the Apprentice, the Last Labyrinth

Study of Arun Joshi's Novels in a Psychoanalytical Approach. Rochana Bharadwaj, Dr. Aditi. 2024. IJIRCT, Volume 10, Issue 2. Pages 1-7. https://www.ijirct.org/viewPaper.php?paperId=2502021