همایش رویکردهای میان رشته ای به آموزش زبان، ادبیات و مطالعات ترجمه

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The Healing Cycle of the Psyche and Nature: Eco-psychological Reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer

نویسندگان :

Narges Raoufzadeh¹ Razieh Eslamieh² Morteza Lak³

1- دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحدی واحد تهران شرق 2- دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد پرند 3- دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات دماوند

کلمات کلیدی :

Biophilia،Ecological Unconscious،Environmental Ethics،Ecotherapy،Eco-psychology،Eco-psychotherapy

چکیده :

Nature is a live psychotherapeutic agent who offers psychological peace. The past few decades, a field entitled eco-psychology has emerged with the purpose of studying the relationship between man’s psyche and environmental crises. Eco-psychology is a newly-emerged, yet fast-developing, interdisciplinary field which integrates diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, ethics and environmental studies. This paper has effectively contextualized Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer (2000), within the framework of eco-psychology to elaborate on the novel’s ecological themes as well as characters’ engagement with the natural world. The significant issue raised in Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer, is the positive psychological effects that intimacy and connection with nature bestows on humans. The novel is indicative of key concepts such as biophilia, ecological unconscious, ecopsychology, environmental ethics and ecotherapy, which were first introduced to the field of ecopsychology by eminent theorists, Edward Wilson, Theodore Roszak and Linda Buzzel. The study aims to indicate how reconciliation with the environment procures indescribable healing in man’s psyche and the communication with it leads to a psychological and emotional balance. The research not only intends to display how man and nature are deeply bound, but also delineates the fact that man’s alienation from nature has a deep effect on his psychological instability. In the field of literary studies, the presented research is fresh as above all, nature has a special upshot on the human psyche and life.