"Trauma" in the World's Two Great Epic Texts: Shahnameh and Mahabharata With an Emphasis on Women's Trauma

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1 PhD student in Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar Kerman University, Kerman, Iran.

10.22111/jsr.2025.50484.2466

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At the beginning of the 20th century, psychoanalysis and Freud's psychological theories gave rise to the idea of the link between literature and psychoanalysis. This was based on the classical texts of literature, the concept of individual unconscious proposed by Freud, and Jung's concept of collective unconsciousness. Widespread psychosis in societies and finding a way to root it out or correct it became the concern of psychologists and writers. This led to introducing the concept of "trauma", which directed minds to a social disorder based on mental abuse. Since then, the term "trauma" has been considered as the intersection of literature, language and psychology,They are full of traumatic events, and the resulting mental injuries are considered as a suitable platform to explain and analyze traumatic events. The present research uses a library method to examine traumatic issues and various types of trauma in the epics Mahabharata and Shahnameh. It comes to the conclusion that "spiritual trauma" or "wounded soul" has a more disturbing and destructive effect on the female than the male heroes of the two epics.abc

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Journal of Subcontinent Researches

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Available Online from 14 April 2025

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