Alienation and Depression: The Duality of Psychic Neurosis in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

This research studies alienation and neurosis in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child. The concepts of are going to be applied within scope psychoanalysis. These help interpret characters, namely female protagonist Lula Ann Bridewell her parents, their resistance against people who taunt them for being black. injustice causes parents alienated from society; later they become psychically neurotic. Therefore, attempts demonstrate how characters’ depression caused by this experience. For reason, three objectives achieved: 1) To examine as an unconscious psychic phase which results social fragmentation novel, 2) investigate abnormal behavioural when experience is triggered back, 3) analyse a disorder last conscious culmination plights marginalization. fills gap concerning disorders impetuses neurosis. research’s methodology, consequently, relies on application Sigmund Freud’s Thus, findings lie exploration result depression.