• Harinder Kaur

The conspicuous feature of the novels of William Faulkner written in the post-World War era is the corrosion of self because the protagonists are seen struggling throughout the novel The Sound and the Fury. Corrosion of self is a totally new perspective in the study of deflation of self. Faulkner is confronted with the baffling problem of depicting a self that seems to have lost its realty. Darwinism led to the formation of the idea of the machine-man the image of the mechanical self. Keplar’s laws and Freud’s explorations of the unconscious brought home the realization that man is but an infinitesimal fraction of the energy that flows through the universe. In the age of Freud and Einstein, God ceased, as it were to reveal Himself in man, Declaring that “modernism and tragedy are incompatible”. Joseph Wood Krutch had rightly pointed out that modern malaise, nausea, angst, alienation, loss of identity, entropy and nihilism were forces that had dehumanized and deflated the heroes. Indeed, modern playwright lacks potential to acknowledge “the awareness of the reality of death” (Fromm 245).In this paper the corrosion of self of the protagonists of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is explored relying on the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud and Cathy Caruth.

alienation, angst, corrosion,deflation, infinitesimal, malaise , psychological perspective

"Corrosion of Self of the characters in The Sound and the Fury of William Faulkner", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.284-289, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCU06057.pdf

"Corrosion of Self of the characters in The Sound and the Fury of William Faulkner", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp284-289, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCU06057.pdf