Troubled and Traumatized Self: A Psychoanalytical Study of Toni Morrison’s Beloved

An attempt has been made in the present paper to study and analyse troubled traumatized self of Sethe Toni Morrison’s Beloved. A psychoanalytic thinker says “trauma places relation between external reality psychic focus. person’s personal experiences are represented one’s own psyche gets personalised. The internal world wishes, conflicts deficits, resulting from trauma, is negotiated human interaction”. Here, felt affected both by physical emotional trauma caused institution slavery.The slavery not only repressed maternal bond betweenSethe her children but alsoher individualization development consciousness as a normal being. an also explore how much she was repression memories had endured life victimized that unable nurture child Under oppressive conditions found herself form beloved daughter. Morrison tried restore historical record atrocities on blacks during period give voice collective memory Afro-Americans depicting faced