A Portrayal of Mental Disability in Nora Shalaway Carpenter's Novel The Edge of Anything
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https://doi.org/10.31185/lark.Vol2.Iss49.2756Keywords:
obsessive compulsive disorder, psychobiography, psychotherapy,Abstract
The present study deals with the suffering of Lennon a mentally disabled teenager in Nora Shalaway Carpenter’s novel The Edge of Anything according to the psychoanalytic theory and critical disability theory. It attempts to explore how the author’s background and experience are reflected through the protagonist, how some social circumstances influenced Lennon, the psychological consequence reactions she shows towards these influences, and which issue affects her most, the outer social impacts or the inner psychological ones. The study proves that mental illness does not mean insanity or lacking logical thinking. It also asserts the importance of friendship and family members besides the psychotherapy for the protagonist to overcome her disability.
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