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| Article Name : | | | THE SPECTRUM OF QUESTS IN THE FICTION OF ARUN JOSHI | | Author Name : | | | S K Mishra and Kapil Kumar Gupta | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6601 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The entire fiction of Arun Joshi has a pattern of quest which can be deciphered by the methodological framework prepared on the basis of the psychology of the “Collective Unconscious” of Jung and Erich Neumann’s post-Jungian elaboration of the myth of the Great Mother structure. Here mythical progression of the symbols and events in the narrative provides cohesiveness while Erich Fromm’s social psychology, in terms of self’s social relatedness in regressive or growing form, and Lacan’s theory of the split self, i.e. unconscious manifesting itself as a dual discourse or dual inscription – “the manifest” and “the unmanifest,” provide tools to discover the differentiation of the ego from its unconscious to a fully matured ego or an utterly reductive, regressed or dissolved self. D.H. Lawrence’s binaries in terms of the “living” and the “funk” or dying in “masturbating self enclosure” are also taken as aids to understand the search and state of the self. | | Keywords : | | - Manifest,Unmanifest,Collective Unconscious, Living and Funk, Great Mother Structure,Narcissistic, Heroic,
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