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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 4(7), pp. 126-131, August, 2016 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2016.058
Review paper
Fears, Defenses, And Related Core Issues Of Santiago, A Major Character In Paulo Coelho’s Novel ‘The Alchemist': A Psychoanalytic Study
Muhammad Hassan Khoso and Sayed Razak Amin Shah
Institute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. E-mail: khosomuhammadhassan@gmail.com
Accepted 20 August 2016
The purpose of
this study was to illustrate fears, defenses and core issues of
Santiago, a major character in Paulo Coelho’s novel “The Alchemist”, the
world best-seller novel. The novel consists of two parts. The character
analysis of Santiago was made only on the behalf of the first part of
the novel. The character analysis was made in the light of Sigmund
Freud’s theory of Psychoanalysis. The main aim of analyzing Santiago’s
character was to know that how fears of intimacy, abandonment, betrayal
and low self-esteem worked as defenses as well as became the core issues
for him. His intimacy with parents, sheep and the girl was main reason
of fears. Thus, the first part of the novel revolves around the
Santiago’s love affair with the merchant’s daughter and his dilemma to
coup up with these issues. While applying the Freudian psychoanalytic
theory on the character analysis of Santiago, it was explicit that the
repressed painful experiences remained repressed unless they were
activated via obsession but they never could be eliminated. The
researcher had used the descriptive method to analyze this data and had
followed APA style. Cite This Article As: Khoso MH, Shah SRA (2016). Fears, Defenses, And Related Core Issues Of Santiago, A Major Character In Paulo Coelho’s Novel ‘The Alchemist': A Psychoanalytic Study. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 4(7): 126-131
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