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Psychoanalysis has many concepts that are complex for the lay reader to grasp instantaneously. To understand what working through it, some background information is considered necessary. This section introduces the relevant terminology and concepts. Current psychoanalytic theory and practice has its origin in the writing of Freud (Etchegoyen, 2005). The aim of analysis is to effect structural changes in the patient. Psychoanalysis consists of five key fundamentals: (a) resistance (b) the transference

loss, is a moving novel by Indian writer Kiran Desai, whereby we see the effect of colonialism and post colonialism and the consequence that comes with it. Many critical themes are explored, Leach lists them as “colonialism, a revolution, multi-ethnic nationhood and illegal immigration in the US, where political allegiance impacts on love affairs, and where the reality of life in a grubby New York basement reshapes the American Dream” (2007). Desai mentions many of these historical events in her

2007; Diaz & Motta, 2008; Motta, Kuligowski, & Marino, 2010; Rosenbaum, Nguyen, Lenehan, Tiedemann, van der Ploeg, & Sherrington, 2011) and therefore be used as an alternative or complimentary treatment option for mental health (Libby, Pilver, & Desai, 2012). While the research of Blumenthal et al. (2007) focused on exercise being effective in reducing self-reported depressive symptoms, Diaz and Motta (2008) and Motta, Kuligowski, and Marino (2010) looked at the positive effects of exercise on

Conclusion This dissertation critically analyzed the issues related to identity, culture and empowerment in the representation of Diasporic experience in Anita Desai Bye Bye Blackbird (1985) and Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake (2003). Diasporic writing is the outcome of variance between dislocation and relocation, a lost sense of belongingness and alienation, not only from the original home but also from the self. Almost all the Diasporic writers have exhibited an irresistible concatenation to their homelands

Forgotten Slums of Mumbai Mumbai, previously known as Bombay until 1995 is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is also the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India. Mumbai has a metro area population of 22 million people making it the most populous city in India. Mumbai also houses the highest number of millionaires and billionaires in India making it the wealthiest city in the country as well. The inequality of wealth is polarizing in Mumbai. It may be the wealthiest

“Divorce isn’t a child's fault; I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me”- Kurt Cobain. More than 30 years of research is continued to reveal the sides of divorce and the effects it has on children. The risks is steady rising, and just because you think that the effects won’t occur to your child the odds do greatly increase. The social impact of divorce on children in the victorian era became impoverished, having them to experience stress

Fasting and Feasting is a novel written by Anita Desai that narrates the story of the protagonist, Uma, and her family’s life. The novel is divided in two parts. Part one deals with Uma’s life in India until the tragic death of her cousin Anamika, and part two tells the story of Uma’s brother, Arun, as he spends his summer with the Pattons, a typical American suburban family. Throughout the novel, Desai explores the theme of family life and uses the novel’s two settings, America and India, to compare

Hullabaloo narrates the lives of the villagers of Shahkot. These people are depicted with wonderfully bright imagery to create an energetic novel. This energy is so excessive that it creates characters from a fabled world, bordering on caricature. Desai uses these characters to mock the oppressive Indian culture and the strong traces of British colonial era still resident in modern India. The text creates an effervescent world for the reader to explore. Desai’s overbearing imagery produces extravagant

with a procedure that generates a quantifiable index. The DV was measured using the Pediatric infant parent exam (PIPE). The PIPE can be utilized in face to face interactions between mother and infant or via mother infant video recorded interviews (Desai, Hamza, Karthik, Ananthanpillai & Chandra, (2014). The PIPE measures the overall impression of interaction rating interaction patterns from low to high. The lower scores reflect the interaction patterns that are more favorable and the higher scores

In the words of one modern critic VinayDubey, Love is an experience with various reactions on those who are in love. It plays role of mediator between mother and son, lover and beloved, husband and wife. It should be under any circumstances without any complexities. Love has two aspects – Subjective and Objective. Subjective love is something conscious and imaginative depending on individual point of view, but the objective love is the essence of love which is unconscious and spontaneous. In Indian