Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at Point Zero
A well-known Middle Eastern author, Nawal El Saadawi shouldered the grave responsibility of defending the rights of women in her country and the Middle East in general. Hysteria is one of the main problems inhabiting the female characters of El Saadawi’s fiction. Many of those female characters su...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
2015
|
| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/1/9238-27933-1-PB.pdf |
| _version_ | 1848811975790821376 |
|---|---|
| author | Omar Mohammed Abdullah, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Kaur, Hardev Manimangai Mani, |
| author_facet | Omar Mohammed Abdullah, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Kaur, Hardev Manimangai Mani, |
| author_sort | Omar Mohammed Abdullah, |
| building | UKM Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | A well-known Middle Eastern author, Nawal El Saadawi shouldered the grave responsibility of defending the
rights of women in her country and the Middle East in general. Hysteria is one of the main problems inhabiting
the female characters of El Saadawi’s fiction. Many of those female characters suffer hysteric symptoms which
manifest as a consequence of sexual violations such as rape, molestation and female circumcision in
patriarchal-centered communities. These violations lead to psychological traumas which can eventually give
rise to hysteria. Symptoms of alienation, loss of speech, fear, anorexia, disturbed sleep and many others are
classified under the bold title of hysteria. Freud attributes the emergence of hysteria to sexual experiences that a
subject goes through in childhood, which appear later in the guise of the aforementioned symptoms. This paper
will focus on Hysteria according to Freudian perspectives, in order to explore its symptoms and reaction, as
well as action undertaken to absolve and actualize the self in El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero. It also
underscores how characters go through this process to gain their subjectivity in this novel. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T23:54:57Z |
| format | Article |
| id | oai:generic.eprints.org:9071 |
| institution | Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T23:54:57Z |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:90712016-12-14T06:48:53Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/ Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at Point Zero Omar Mohammed Abdullah, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Kaur, Hardev Manimangai Mani, A well-known Middle Eastern author, Nawal El Saadawi shouldered the grave responsibility of defending the rights of women in her country and the Middle East in general. Hysteria is one of the main problems inhabiting the female characters of El Saadawi’s fiction. Many of those female characters suffer hysteric symptoms which manifest as a consequence of sexual violations such as rape, molestation and female circumcision in patriarchal-centered communities. These violations lead to psychological traumas which can eventually give rise to hysteria. Symptoms of alienation, loss of speech, fear, anorexia, disturbed sleep and many others are classified under the bold title of hysteria. Freud attributes the emergence of hysteria to sexual experiences that a subject goes through in childhood, which appear later in the guise of the aforementioned symptoms. This paper will focus on Hysteria according to Freudian perspectives, in order to explore its symptoms and reaction, as well as action undertaken to absolve and actualize the self in El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero. It also underscores how characters go through this process to gain their subjectivity in this novel. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/1/9238-27933-1-PB.pdf Omar Mohammed Abdullah, and Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, and Kaur, Hardev and Manimangai Mani, (2015) Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at Point Zero. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 21 (3). pp. 99-107. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l |
| spellingShingle | Omar Mohammed Abdullah, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Kaur, Hardev Manimangai Mani, Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at Point Zero |
| title | Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s
woman at Point Zero |
| title_full | Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s
woman at Point Zero |
| title_fullStr | Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s
woman at Point Zero |
| title_full_unstemmed | Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s
woman at Point Zero |
| title_short | Manifestations of hysteria in Nawal El Saadawi’s
woman at Point Zero |
| title_sort | manifestations of hysteria in nawal el saadawi’s
woman at point zero |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9071/1/9238-27933-1-PB.pdf |