A comparative study of the "feeling of inferiority" theory and ways to deal with it based on Adler's individualistic psychology In the poems of Iranian and Arab women poets (Simin Behbahani, Ghade Alsman)

Subject Areas : شعر

zahra karimi ¹ , sepideh sepehri ² , arezo shomali oskoei ³ , elahe hajiha ⁴

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Roudhan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhan, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch, Roodehen, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen, Iran.

Received: 2023-04-06 Accepted : 2023-05-06 Published : 2024-01-21

Keywords: sense of inferiority, Simin Behbahani, psychoanalytic literary criticism, Alfred Adler, Ghade Alsman,

Abstract :

Psychoanalytic criticism is a new and visionary criticism in which the researcher or critic aims to reveal hidden aspects or different behavioral angles and psychological signs in a given work, whether literary or... to analyze the personality of the writer, artist or fictional characters.Individualistic psychology was founded by Alfred Adler and one of the theories in this individualistic psychology is the theory of inferiority. In this article, which is done in a descriptive-analytical way based on document analysis and the method of library studies, the poems of two contemporary Iranian and Arab poets (Simin Behbahani, Ghadeh Al-Saman) are analyzed and examined based on the theory of inferiority complex based on Adler's individualistic psychology. Placed. The results of the research show that the feeling of inferiority in the poems of Simin Behbahani and Ghade Alsman was due to gender discrimination in the society, and the most important components and indicators that can be found in the poems based on Alfred Adler's individualistic psychology to deal with the feeling of inferiority These two female poets saw, including the mechanisms of superiority, social interest, despair and loneliness, isolation and withdrawal; Glory and protest and love.