Open AccessSigmund Freud’s Psychic Apparatus Theory: A Study of the Protagonist in Saul Bellow’s Novel ‘Herzog’
Author(s) -
Ramaballabh Sharma
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijellh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4406
pISSN - 2582-3574
DOI - 10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10112
Subject(s) - psychic , psyche , feeling , psychoanalysis , id, ego and super ego , psychology , covert , expression (computer science) , character (mathematics) , perception , philosophy , social psychology , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , geometry , mathematics , pathology , computer science , programming language , neuroscience
“Psychology is the scientific study of the behaviour of humans The term ‘behaviour’ refers to both covert observable actions and covert observable mental processes and states such as perception, thought, reasoning, problem-solving, emotions and feelings (Encyclopaedia Britannica, P. 470) If the field of psychology is to study the mental processes and activities, art and literature give verbal expression to those mental and psychic processes. Sigmund Freud’s Psychic theories have encouraged the literary artists to probe deeper into human psyche and thereby presenting the ideas, ideals, thoughts and feelings which are of human interest and universal significance. The present article aims to highlight how the Sigmund Freud’s Psychic apparatus (Id, Ego and Super-ego) exercise a controlling and dominating influence on the personality, behaviour and character of the Protagonist Moses E. Herzog, depicted and portrayed by Saul Bellow, in his best known novel ‘Herzog.’