• M. INBARAJ

Memory is the only thing that is left for the humans apart from all the material things which one earns during one’s lifetime on earth. It is the record of the present and later becomes the recollection of the past. Everything that happens in one’s day to day life gets recorded as memory in one’s mind. Memory can be both good and bad about the events or incidents that happened in a person’s life. And as the time passes the memories which had major impact on a person remains on the conscious level of the person’s mind and can easily be brought out, retrieved, reminisced or remembered. But a major part of the memories get subdued or even repressed in the course of time in the unconscious of the mind. It is because of trying to forget or ignore the traumatic past events, unresolved conflicts and unadmitted desires according to Freud’s “idea of repression.” Thus memory is associated with the recollection of the past to bring out the thoughts and remembrances of happenings and incidents form both conscious and unconscious realm of human mind. Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for the past which has turned out to be one’s memory. Most of Ishiguro’s characters in this novel, Never Let Me Go, brood over their nostalgic, traumatic past and inevitable traumatic future. In this paper the researcher works with psychoanalytic lens to highlight how memory and nostalgia play a major role in creating an emotional force which uncovers the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.

Unconscious, Idea of the Repressed, Emotional Force, Cathartic Effect, Purgation of Pity and Fear, memory, Interconnectedness, Inevitable Sadness

"Memory and Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Psychoanalytical Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.506-515, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903476.pdf

"Memory and Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Psychoanalytical Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp506-515, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903476.pdf