Social Sciences

Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2015

  • Fragrance of Narcissism – A Comparison Between Eastern and Western Concepts

    Chatterjee Sraboni

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: Jul. 26, 2015
    Accepted: Aug. 16, 2015
    Published: Oct. 20, 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.11
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature & Psychology
    Abstract: Love and life are the two sides of a coin. But the form of love is not same everywhere. It is manifested through different colours and connotations and as a result sometimes it comes as a sweet fragrance of a flower and sometimes its forms become destructive. Narcissism or self-love can be channelized in both ways. In this paper an attempt has been... Show More
  • Revisiting Tagore’s “Shishu Bholanath” in the Light of Dynamic Flow

    Bithi Ahiri

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 5-8
    Received: Jul. 22, 2015
    Accepted: Jul. 29, 2015
    Published: Oct. 20, 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.12
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature & Psychology
    Abstract: At its heart—psychodynamic approach conceptualized that overtly manifested behavior, emotion and feeling are intermingled with the underlying covert psychological processes and early experiences. Early life experiences along with the flow of internal energies develop numerous blowing capitals that ultimately reconstruct one’s personality through di... Show More
  • The Reality of the Fractured Psyche as Represented in “Grass Is Singing”

    Nilanjana Bagchi

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 9-13
    Received: Oct. 19, 2015
    Accepted: Nov. 05, 2015
    Published: Dec. 17, 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.13
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature & Psychology
    Abstract: In her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in 1950, Doris Lessing, a British writer borrows the title of this novel from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land where she gradually unravels the apparent dreariness of romantic connotations of the title in reality. The novel, gradually unfolds the disintegration of the coherent “self” of Mary Turner, the protago... Show More
  • Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das - A Comparative Study

    Shaona Sengupta, Tinni Dutta

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 14-18
    Received: Aug. 12, 2015
    Accepted: Aug. 14, 2015
    Published: Jan. 13, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.14
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature & Psychology
    Abstract: Of all the living beings, man is the only being who has been able to express his emotions explicitly in many forms. Emotions for other fellow beings, nature and self have been expressed by man in various creative forms. As man is creative in nature and has always expressed his emotions through music, art, philosophy and literature. Thus, literature... Show More
  • Psychodynamics of an Author

    Debanjana Basu

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6-1, December 2015
    Pages: 19-22
    Received: Sep. 10, 2015
    Accepted: Sep. 11, 2015
    Published: Jan. 27, 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ss.s.2015040601.15
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature & Psychology
    Abstract: The psychodynamics of the writer, Sudha Murty, have been observed through the discourse. Two of her literary works, Death Without Grief and A Wedding To Remember have been selected for this purpose from her book “Wise and Otherwise” published in 2002. In one story, the author tries to depict the insignificance of death. The subjective connotation o... Show More