A Maslowian Analysis of Self-Actualization in Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die
Keywords:
self-actualization, suicidal tendencies, Veronika Decides to DieAbstract
This study critically elaborates Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho under the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis of self-actualization by Abraham Maslow. This Study finds, how the meaningless norms of a society can lead a person toward insanity and suicide but a person rescues one’s life by knowing and expressing his identity through the yard-stick of psychoanalysis of self-actualization. It is an exploration of not the world around oneself but the world inside oneself. Moreover, the female protagonist’s rejection to become a part of mass hysteria and her realization after a break in an asylum, reconcile with the reality projected by the society, consequently, it leads her toward selfactualization.
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