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April 19, 2026International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

The Haunted Body Politic: Psychoanalysis, War Trauma, and National Identity in Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad

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DADr Mariya AslamAMAasim MirTATanvir Ahmed

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Overview

This article examines trauma and identity in Iraq, suggesting literature helps understand societal violence.

Key Points

  • The aim is to analyze how Ahmed Saadawi's novel portrays collective trauma in post-2003 Iraq through psychoanalytic lenses.
  • Applied qualitative interpretive methodology
  • Psychoanalytic hermeneutics for textual analysis
  • Structured textual indexing
  • Theorization of concepts such as collective superego failure
  • Analysis of the narrative as a diagnostic allegory
  • Identified collective superego failure reflecting the collapse of symbolic structures regulating aggression.
  • Demonstrated distributed traumatization affects individuals and institutions without creating a unified identity.
  • Showed the creature in the novel symbolizes unresolved national trauma.
  • Extended Freud's theories into the context of state failure and recovery.

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Aslam et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e473de010ef96374d8f9d5https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70048
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