Psychological analysis of Ipseity Disturbance (ID) in Namita Gokhale’s work The Book of Shadows
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Ipseity Disturbance (ID) abbreviates self-disturbance and lack of consciousness. The aim of this study highlights ID in Namita Gokhale’s work The Book of Shadows (2001). The features of ID in this work exhibit the woman acid attack victim’s alienation, imagination and bodily experiences. Namita Gokhale is perhaps a talented novelist whose best-known writings include The Book of Shadows (1999), Priya: In Incredible Indyaa (2011) and Things to leave Behind (2016). Among the works of Namita Gokhale, this study selected Book of Shadows (2001). This selected work has the issues of ID that reflects throughout her writing. In Namita Gokhale’s work, the major protagonist represents ID attributes through Rachita, the acid victim. Rachita has the reflection of ID ideas through their life. There are some theories in ID. This theory has adopted Parnas’s EASE (Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience) measurement. The methodology of the study adopts the concepts of ID proposed by Parnas’s five domains are, Stream of consciousness, sense of presence/basic identity, bodily experience, sense of demarcation and existential reorientation. In the next part, the result of this study compared with the result of other studies. The study's findings are compared to those of previous research in terms of ID. Future study recommendations are existentialism, search for identity, emancipation from alienation and stream of consciousness.
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