On the onset of taking my Literary Criticism subject under the supervision of a distinguished Doctor of Arts professor, I need to read Jhumpa Lahiri's Sexy. It is one of the nine short stories included in a book collection by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. The book receives prestigious awards such as Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It is also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List.
An Application of
of Psychological Approach in
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Sexy
The short story Sexy is apt for Freud’s Psychological Approach. The characters’ forbidden sexual relationship and despondency of extra-marital affair make up the story and they are representations of Freud’s three psychic zones: id, ego and superego.
At the very onset, Jhumpa Lahiri’s title provides the readers a strong psychoanalytic hint. The title itself does not only redolent to the idea that someone or something is appealing or interesting but the term suggests more than a descriptive word. Viewed from Freudian perspective, t...
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