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Hamlet’s Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cather’s A Lost Lady and Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
in Critical Survey
Author:
Tareq Zuhair
Tareq Zuhair
University of Petra, Jordan tzuhair@uop.edu.jo
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Abstract
Freudian neurosis, despite being a psychological disorder rather than a literary topic, has been used in literature to conceptualise characters’ suffering. Freud contends that the suppression of desires due to hidden and unhidden causes leads to neurosis. Being unable to succeed in life, individuals feel neurotic and tend to displace their frustrations onto other persons or objects. Starting with the Renaissance, this article explores how displacement in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is tacitly approached and how this reaction has become a recurrent case in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady (1923) and Laila Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land (2007). The article analyses the incentives of neurosis in each work, how these reasons lead to the onset of displacement and how literary works share relatively similar implications about displacement despite being about different issues.
Contributor Notes
Tareq Zuhair is an assistant professor at the University of Petra, where he teaches literature and literary theory. His research focuses on the nexus between literature and real life. His field of research includes psychoanalysis, modernism, postmodernism, hybridity and multiculturalism. He has published a book entitled The Disintegration of the American Dream and the Decay of Family Connections. Noor Publishing (2016) E-mail: tzuhair@uop.edu.jo