Healing Process in Trauma Narratives in Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh's novel If It's Not Forever.. It's Not Love

Authors

  • K. Deepadharshini PG & Research Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli – 620020

Keywords:

Healing, Psychoanalysis, Suffering, Deportment, Melioration.

Abstract

This paper portrays the trauma narrative of a person's life and how he recovered from the tragic event that happened to him. So, here with the view of psycho-analysis theory, this paper is presented. This theory is considered as a treatment for people who are affected or stuck in their past life events. It says that our present is shaped by our past. The unclaimed meaning of individual sufferings in the past can pressure our state of mind, deportment and bestow difficulty with relationships, work, pride, and dignity. The ambition of this paper is to make the people aware of the source of psychological queries and reinforce the people's affairs with the aim of melioration through this novel If It’s Not Forever.. It’s Not Love (2012) which was written by Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh. Even though this novel comes under the thriller, suspense, and romance genre it has some special narrative structure that makes a person heal from his inner suffering. At the beginning, the readers may think that only one person is suffering from the trauma effect but later we can realise that the protagonist Deb, and another character Ritam are also suffering from the trauma. 

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Published

2024-09-13

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): Jamal Academic Research Journal-An Interdisciplinary (JARJ)

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