Analysis of the Ubayd Zakani’s ‘Mouse and Cat’ Poem from a Psychoanalytical Perspective
Maryam Abdi, Mohammad Fazeli
Abstract
Ubayd Zakani’s ‘Mouse and Cat’ is a quite political story criticizing the conditions and situation of the Ubayd’s era society. Although the political perspective of this story is bolder than the other perspectives, its latent subtle points cannot be ignored. The current study, regarding the principle of returning to nature, which has been approved by both Rumi and Saadi, and based on Clifford’s Ethics of Belief and Einstein and Freud’s views of war, as well as the psychological defensive mechanisms, has been psychoanalytically analyzed. Can credulity and gullibility regarded as cruelty? Is the mouse’s repentance a false one? And, basically, is there an instinct within man which is satisfied with violence and war? These are the questions the author has answered throughout the article. Returning to the nature and essence, the compensation mechanism, deceit and reverse reaction, credulity and gullibility, and war as an excuse for satisfaction of one of the instincts, are among the achievements of the current research which have been realized through studying numerous books and articles.
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