Dr. Samira Sasani & Elham Haghrezayee
Shiraz University, Iran
Saul Bellow’s character, Wilhelm Adler, as an individual possessing mind and psyche shows a repeating pattern of behavior throughout his life. The recurrence of such experience helps the reader recognize the unconscious psychic operations, which as a system of belief define his worldview and his image of himself. The freedom of will which is endowed to him as an existential man is bound to the schemas existing in his mind and controlling his behavior and his decision-making. Schemas fight for their own survival and, through different maladaptive coping strategies, lead Wilhelm to the point which preserves their maintenance and his ultimate defeat. In this study the researchers have applied Young’s theory of Schema Therapy to Bellow’s Seize the Day to show how Wilheln Adler’s psyche works.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
