A Psychoanalytic Study on the Question of Trauma and Defense Mechanisms in American Modern Fiction: A Case Study: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”

Abstract

The American Literature is characterized by its diversity in the twentieth century, it portrays all the cultural and social problems of that period in detail. There are several writers pan out in doing so. They used their personal experience as a way to express the social issues of their society. Literature is the only source through which most of them could find their comfortable mindset.