The Controversy of the Victim/Executioner in the Iraqi Novelist Discourse. “Frankenstein in Baghdad” of Ahmed Asadaoui as a Case Study

Abstract

We can understand through the novel "Frankenstein in Baghdad," to the Iraqi writer Ahmed AlSaadawi: death and violence are very clear in the narrative text. It reveals the reality of Iraq and its sectarianism crisis and its division (civil war), its isolation, the people suffering and the Iraqi
division after the American occupation. Where the novel begins by a miraculous personal (Frankenstein); which is created by the circumstances of cultural and sectarian diversity, it's the other, savior of humanity that carry and bear dead bodies, feeds of them to arise and to be strong enough to maintain in life, trying to revenge to the deads. Suddenly, this miraculous person turns into a torturer / monster seeking to realize Justice and revenge for the victims of the explosions; to stand out the image of torn Iraq, painful, and crumbling under the insecurity on
the one hand and self-splitting on the other hand.
Based on this narrative work, our study focuses on the psychological approach, monitoring theories and psychological studies of the most important researchers and psychologists like(s. freud , which is based on human self-dissection. Where our reading relies on tracking the constituent aspects of literary text, the most notably is the Subconscious issues, repression and many psychological subjects.