A Freudian Psychoanalytic Study of K. A. Abbas’s “Sparrows” and “Three Women”

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Saima Raza,Seema Raza,Iram Iqbal

Abstract

The Freudian psychoanalytic theory engages several topics of human psychology and behavioral sciences, narrowing down the topic Tennyson’s fixations of Freud’s theory are studied to conduct the specific study. This paper contains two short stories of K. A. Abbas “Sparrows” and “Three Women’s” textual analysis using Freud’s theory of personality and supporting it with Tennyson’s model to specify. “Rahim Khan” and “The Three Women” from these stories are analyzed with respect to their past traumas and psychological functions of the brain. The main focus of the theory for the text employs the ideas of id, ego, super-ego, suppression, oppression, conscious, sub-conscious, unconscious and catharsis etc. The behaviors of the concerned characters are studied and analyzed on the basis of their speech, actions and events related to them. The analysis is concluded in  a sense that gives satisfied justifications to the research objectives. This research is done manually considering the research gap after a thorough literature review.

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