Psychosomatic Monster
Satyavrat Nirala
Psychosomatic Monster: Jamaal’s Transformation in Omair Ahmad’s “Jimmy the Terrorist.”
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Friedrich Nietzsche1
I am entangled. I reminisced and endeavored myself with a phobic contemplation that is it only my verge? I paused to procure the echo. My inception of hypothesis is soundlessly germinating. What is Psychosomatic? I figured out the meaning relating to, involving, or concerned with bodily symptoms caused by mental or emotional disturbance. The intrinsic argument is the drafting of the character Jamaal as Jimmy into a monster embodying a psychosomatic core. I surveyed “Narrative Performance in the Contemporary Monster Story” a composition by Daniel Punday and recounted his articulation to capture a symmetric channel with Omair Ahmad’s “Jimmy the Terrorist”, a vivid picture yet carefully constructed true-to-life characters in social and political relevant sketch. Daniel Punday observes the idea of creation of monster and it’s the usefulness of exploring the agencies of narrative. He again stressed on the concept of evolution’s challenge in defining monster in traditional setup. I am quite amused on the fact that the conception and use of metaphysical analysis by the contemporary writers. I found a quote quite appealing where Hans Holfmann finds “Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.” The concept of structuralism2 is vital as it divides the world into two units: - the visible or palpable, or observable and invisible, or underlying (deep structure). The visible world has all that is seen and felt and in the invisible world, the structures which is generated by the human mind, organizes and order these phenomena so that we can make sense of them. As a conceptual system, a
Psychosomatic Monster: Jamaal’s Transformation in Omair Ahmad’s “Jimmy the Terrorist.”
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Friedrich Nietzsche1
I am entangled. I reminisced and endeavored myself with a phobic contemplation that is it only my verge? I paused to procure the echo. My inception of hypothesis is soundlessly germinating. What is Psychosomatic? I figured out the meaning relating to, involving, or concerned with bodily symptoms caused by mental or emotional disturbance. The intrinsic argument is the drafting of the character Jamaal as Jimmy into a monster embodying a psychosomatic core. I surveyed “Narrative Performance in the Contemporary Monster Story” a composition by Daniel Punday and recounted his articulation to capture a symmetric channel with Omair Ahmad’s “Jimmy the Terrorist”, a vivid picture yet carefully constructed true-to-life characters in social and political relevant sketch. Daniel Punday observes the idea of creation of monster and it’s the usefulness of exploring the agencies of narrative. He again stressed on the concept of evolution’s challenge in defining monster in traditional setup. I am quite amused on the fact that the conception and use of metaphysical analysis by the contemporary writers. I found a quote quite appealing where Hans Holfmann finds “Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.” The concept of structuralism2 is vital as it divides the world into two units: - the visible or palpable, or observable and invisible, or underlying (deep structure). The visible world has all that is seen and felt and in the invisible world, the structures which is generated by the human mind, organizes and order these phenomena so that we can make sense of them. As a conceptual system, a
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