Steve Jacobs’ The Enemy Within : A Racial and Psychoanalytic Reading
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2017-06
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This research paper is an exploration of a social and psychological study of Steve Jacobs’
novel entitled The Enemy Within (1995).For its theoretical implication, the study relied on
Hall’s theory on identity, Todorov’s theory on racism and Jung’s theory on the unconscious.
Focus has been laid on the analysis of psychological state of the characters, their confused
lives and their behaviors. Yet, we stressed on the analysis of the characters’ positions that
were undertaken to treat the issues of identity and racism. Our dissertation contains five
sections which consists of a ‘General Introduction’, ‘Methods and Materials’, ‘Results’,
‘Discussion’, and a ‘General Conclusion’ and a ‘Bibliography’. The discussion section is
divided into three chapters. The first chapter concerns the way in which Jacobs defined the
character’s identity within South African society. The second deals with the issue of racism
that was widespread during the Apartheid era. The third one is a psychoanalytic study of
Jacobs’ characters. This study has reached some of the following results. The first one is that
each character tries to recognize his own identity. Second, racial segregation disturbed the
whole nation during Apartheid system. The last one is that the characters are subject to inner
weaknesses that might destroy them.
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54p. ; 30cm. +(cd)
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Arts dramatiques et lettres Anglaises