Sabrina Abdulkadhom
University of Karbala, Iraq
It is only natural that a person encounters a variety of personalities since the day of birth. They encounter and interact with different personalities, which is basically one of the major processes that helps with the shaping and developing of one’s own personality. Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist, has studied, analyzed and carefully explained the behavior of people by dividing the human mind into three major parts. These parts represent the essence of man’s personality and thus behavior. With the extreme difference of these parts of the mind, it is obvious that one contradicts the other in nature and thereby a possible struggle may find its place within the human mind. This division and conflict of the mind are found within the intellectual structure of every human mind and has not only been the subject in real life, but also in the world of fiction. The famous novel, The Sky is Everywhere, presents the reader with several characters where Freud’s division and the conflict of the mind are visible. This research shall first introduce the novel and its author Jane Nelson. Then it will be followed by a detailed explanation of Freud’s famous theory of psychoanalysis, explaining the parts of the human mind. The research will then analyze The Sky is Everywhere according to this theory, followed up by a conclusion to sum up the findings of this study.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Fourth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2020, Ahwaz.
