A Psychoanalytic Reading Of Season Of Migration To The Norths Mustafa Saeed

Sarah GalalA psychoanalytic reading of Season of Migration to the North’s Mustafa SaeedSeason of Migration to the North (1966) by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih is a classic Arabic novel that marks a major shift in the writing of postcolonial novels. Through the eyes of the narrator who returns to his small town by the Nile, Wad Hamid, after getting his doctoral degree in Literature from England, the reader explores the impact of British colonization on the Sudanese culture and identity. The novel is a complex text with the narrative interwoven between the physical and psychological journeys of the narrator in relation to the journey of Mustafa Saeed, who lived in Europe for twenty-five years before returning to settle in Wad Hamid. Mustafa Saeed grew up under Colonialism in Sudan, and it is significant how his character is marked by violence and death. His father dies before he is born, and he lacks any meaningful connection to his mother. He is deprived of a sense of belonging from the beginning of his life. This essay aims to conduct a psychoanalytic reading of Saeed as a character driven by his id after failing to mediate the oedipal complex.Saeed’s oedipal complex is