“The Other” and “Othering” in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater: A Psychological Study
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https://doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v5n3y2019.pp97-102Keywords:
Confessions, De Quincey, Opium-Eater, Other, Othering, Otherness, Psychology, Post-ColonialAbstract
The Other and Otherness (Othering) or Us and Them are one of the most contemporary complex topics which relate to organizing the kind and nature of human relationship besides involving many dangers which could represent a real threat to man's existence. This paper tries to shed some light on this flagrant and shameful literary work of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater which deals with how discrimination is spread among human beings. At the beginning, a theoretical literary review will establish the fundamental bases of this study, including the psychological and post-colonial concepts. Then, it will study Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater as a realistic model of embodying such racial discrimination and introducing a huge abhorrent image between superior and inferior relationship and the consequences as estrangement, alienation, un-belonging feelings, etc. Finally, the study ends up with the main findings as well as suggesting a piece of advice and solution for eliminating such humiliating inferior look into the other different human being.
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Hopkin, David and et.al.(2015). The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: 1790-1880. Volume 4:1790-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Payne, Michael and Jessica Rae Barbera. (2010). A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Second Edition. Chichester, West Sussex: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Ray, Rebecca and et al. (2010). “Who cares? Assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries”. Center for Economic and Policy Research Washington, DC. Journal of European Social Policy. 0958-9287; Vol. 19(5): 196–14; 344247; Retrieved from DOI:10.1177/0958928709XXXXXX and http://esp.sagepub.com.
Roth, Marty.(2002). Ch.4: “Victorian High Detection, Drugs, And Empire.” High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Edited by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield. Berkeley: University of California Press, UC Press E- Books Collection. Retrieved from http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc8mj/
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Sartre, Jean Paul.(1970). Existentialism and Humanities. Translated by Philip Mairet. 11th ed. 1948. Reprinted. London: Metheun and Co.
Schmitt, Cannon.(2002). Ch.3:“Narrating National Addictions De Quincey, High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Edited by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield. Berkeley: University of California Press, UC Press E- Books Collection. Retrieved from http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc8mj/
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Habash, F. B. K. (2019). “The Other” and “Othering” in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater: A Psychological Study. Journal of University of Human Development, 5(3), 97–102. https://doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v5n3y2019.pp97-102
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