Online Journal of Education Research

ISSN 2277-0860; Volume 2 Issue 2, Pages 34-40; April 2013

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“Alamu Has Gone Mad!”: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Bayo Adebowale’s Out Of His Mind   Orkpe Matthias Nder, Ph.D (Associate Professor)   Department of Educational Foundations and General Studies University of Agriculture, Makurdi. Benue State, Nigeria. E-Mail: smithakasmith@yahoo.co.uk.   Received 11 October, 2012 Accepted 18 April, 2013

Applying key arguments of the psychoanalytical theory, this paper examines the interplay of the id, the ego and the superego in the minds of the principal characters. The analysis has revealed that the interplay has accounted for the motives, attitudes, actions and utterances of the principal characters in Bayo Adebowale’s ‘Out of His Mind’. The objective of the paper is to provide a better understanding of the text, and to further demonstrate the continued relevance of the psychoanalytical theory in the interpretation of African literature. The need for scholars to think in comparative cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary terms is the broader objective of the paper.

Key words: Psychoanalytical theory, psychological principles, interpretation, analysis, human behavior/mind, African literature

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