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    Azrara Lynda
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2025) DJAOUD Nawel
    The present study investigates the issue of trauma within two selected literary works: Diana Abu Jaber‘s Crescent, (2003) and Joseph O‘Neill‘s Netherland (2008). The aim of this research paper has been to explore how trauma shapes an individual’s identity in context of displacement. Relying on Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, this dissertation analyzed how the novels portray their protagonists’ struggles with their identity formation in two different contexts: post- Gulf War and post-9/11 America. Our research is structured into two main chapters, the Imaginary, the Real, and the Symbolic order in the two selected narratives. The analysis of these two literary works together resulted in two key findings. First, it confirmed how trauma significantly alters self –perception, pushing individuals to navigate their identity through a fragmented self in diasporic dislocation. Second, the research revealed that identity formation is a complex process of reconciliation between internal desires and external expectations through language, trauma, and social structures.