PSYCHOANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF MIGRANT MINDS IN THE NOVELS OF M.G. VASSANJI

Milindra Sukhadeve; Prof. Sanjay Palwekar

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.4481

Authors

Milindra Sukhadeve Research Scholar, Post Graduate Teaching Department of English, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur
Prof. Sanjay Palwekar Research Supervisor, Post Graduate Teaching Department of English, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.4481

Keywords:

Psychoanalysis, Migration, Alienation, Culture, Language, Society

Abstract [English]

The human mind in many migrations was studied by M.G. Vassanji. In most of his works, an estrangement from the migrating nation, community, and culture arises as a result of suppressed emotion and dreams, and an unconscious play of mental agony resulting in a disrupted common thinking pattern. Every story that Vassanji tells is purposefully meant to depict psychiatric disorders brought on by unrealized potential, achieving psychoanalysis for his neurotic condition. Along with migration comes a process of change, one that is frequently upsetting to a previously stable mind due to changes in cuisine, language, culture, surroundings, and interpersonal acceptance. A migrant's intellect carefully examines the new society and contrasts it with the one from which he came. Every event and experience he has serves as fodder for a comparison between the past and the present, between his current state and his previous one, and between natives and his natives. One of M.G. Vasssanji's major accomplishments is his in-depth account of the consequences on migrants and his careful exploration of their thoughts.

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