Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF INDIVIDUALS IN SEEKING THE SELF: A CRITICAL STUDY OF 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE
Author(s) -
Dr L Mayavan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of engineering applied science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-2143
DOI - 10.33564/ijeast.2021.v06i05.047
Subject(s) - psychology , psychoanalysis , criticism , identity (music) , literary criticism , maslow's hierarchy of needs , erikson's stages of psychosocial development , psychoanalytic theory , psychological theory , ego psychology , social psychology , aesthetics , philosophy , literature , art , linguistics
In psychology, personality crisis isthe inability in adolescents to establish egoidentification. The psychologist Erikson coined theterm. Identity unity vs. function ambiguity is thestage of psycho-social growth in which identityconflicts arise. Psychological literary criticism hadits base in the psychoanalytical thoughts putforward by Sigmund Freud. After Freud, sometheories by Neo-Freudians such as Jung and Adleralso became a part of it. Critics, who choosePsychological literary criticism, champion oneparticular psychological theory and apply it toworks of all the authors. Considering this,Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis has a lot ofscope to be used as a theory for Psychologicalliterary criticism. The current study aims to fillthis gap in the psychological literature, linkingMaslow’s theory to contemporary theory andresearch on personality and well-being.