A Psychoanalytic Study of Emma Donoghue’s Room: An Adlerian Reading

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to investigate the notion of inferiority complex, striving for success and freedom of choice in lens of Adler theory of personality development in Emma Donoghue’s Room. These concepts unveil negative emotions encouraged the characters to develop their personality through the novel and how the characters resolve the personality problems in this novel. The focus of this study is on Adler Psychoanalysis and also the causes and effects of the problem which are described in this novel. Therefore, this study explored how characters` freedom of choice depicted in Emma Donoghue’s Room, and how the notion of inferiority complex and striving for success impact on Ma’s personality development. In the case of knowing answer of these problems, concepts of inferiority complex, striving for success and freedom of choice become the main topics in this study. The research method of the present study is analytical-comparative method which has used the American school of comparative literature in analyzing the above example. The corpus of the current study includes Emma Donoghue’s Room.