A WRECKED SELF: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL READING OF RAPE VICTIM IN ATTA'S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME

Abstract

This research is an investigation of Wrecked Self: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Rape Victim in Atta's Everything Good Will Come. This work fills the scholarly gap of bringing to light, the traumatic experience female rape victims endure and the psychological dent this experience leaves on their mental health forever. This study applies Freud’s psychoanalysis and Burgess & Holmstrom's rape trauma syndrome theory in exploring the excruciating pain Atta’s rape victim endured. The psychological damage she suffers as a result of many horrifying experience and debasement pushes her to adopt repression as a defence coping mechanism. This study not only explores the evil of rape; it goes further to enlighten rape victims and the society on the dangers of rape on the human person; the phases of rape trauma and its coping mechanisms. It also explores the essence of debunking rape myths and possibly avoids the factors that constitute to rape increase in the society. It urges the readers to insist on the need to hear the voices of those that are powerless and victimized.