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A Psycho-semiotic Study of Franz Kafka's Text

Thesis Info

Author

Bushra Naz

Department

Department of English

Program

Mphil

Institute

National University of Modern Languages

Institute Type

Public

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2009

Subject

English Language

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676728705225

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A Psycho-semiotic Study of Franz Kafka's Text This Psychosemiotic study of Kafkan text explores how signs and symbols in the Kafkan text play a significant role in bringing the structured imagination of Kafka's psyche and signification process on the surface of the narrative. These embedded sign complexes help to appreciate the in-depth dimensions meanings of Kafkan text with reference to his personality by positioning him in the multidimensional theoretical framework of Psychosemiotics. The proposition of the sign phenomenon has been contested through the critical review of the related literature on Kafka, and this analysis opens up the existing spaces and gaps, and thus creates a prerequisite and rationale for the Psychosemiotic study of Kafka. From this methodological, analytical, and theoretical perspective, I have investigated signs and symbols in their subliminal context, and scrutinized them to see as to how they appear in Kafkan narratives. This explicit display of Kafkan fiction, as a discourse within the particular context of interpretation of signs and symbols, has been argued in the light of theoretical assumptions of Sonne & Grambye's (2006) Psychosemiotic model at propositional, narrative and argumentative levels simultaneously spotlight the psychic structures of id, ego and super ego manifested in the text. The analysis and interpretation of the delimited text of Kafka shows that linguistic signs resurface the psychic structure of Kafka that refers to the subconscious, unconscious and conscious sensibilities of Kafka's personality in the symbols at representational and conceptual levels. This propensity verifies the Psychosemiotic perspective of discourse as how narrative is displayed on the surface and how it stirs up and excites various meanings at deeper levels on the part of reader, exposing and corresponding to the hidden recesses of Kafkan intellect. This predisposition emphasizes the appreciation of Kafka with reference to the diversity of meanings at various dimensions in linguistic and perspicacity categories existing in the psychic structure of Kafka this further authenticates linguistic and perceptive composition of Kafka's mind at abstract levels.
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