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- Title
Listening to the Id: Interpreting Shobha De's Snapshots.
- Authors
Vats, Naresh K.
- Abstract
The id operates on what Freud calls the pleasure principle, engaging in completely selfish and pleasure oriented behavior, concerned only with the immediate gratification of instinctual needs without reference to reality or moral consideration. Snapshots presents demolition of the long established social conventions and value system, though a little overreaching. Major characters in Shobha De's fiction follow their instincts. Snapshots registers the reflections of the novelist on the lives of six women, who were friends at Santa Maria High School, as well as on their environment. Snapshots catalogues many women with diverse marital status and attitudes towards matrimony ranging from outright rejection of it to meek submission to the traditional bond of matrimony. Marriage, with traditional definition and implication, is seen more as a hindrance to a woman's efforts to attain fulfillment. The characters stand tall and gracefully accept the responsibility of all kinds of after effects -- whatever may be their mutual equations as women.
- Subjects
DE, Shobha; SNAPSHOTS (Book); FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; SUPEREGO; PERSONALITY; ANXIETY
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 3, p47
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article