Abstract : Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in 1993 for literature, the most sophisticated novelist in the history of African American literature, has been recognized as a strident voice for the exploited black people as well as a master craftsman of the dominant artistic form. The main objective to write this paper is to elucidate the psychological emptiness in most of the characters of the novel and the reasons and effects of this vacuum on their personality and its reflection in their own life and society. The paper also focuses on the changing psychology of the couple during their conjugal life as initially the new couples do not like to have babies in order to enjoy their life and to escape the responsibilities but in the sunset of their life they realize the need of the babies. When Violet sees the baby in the lap of any woman, she likes to have it and she has some jealousy. This is the reason she keeps the dolls in her bedroom and plays with them. The paper also tries to ascertain the reasons and circumstances which are responsible for Joe’s extra marital affairs with Dorcas, a daughter like girl, her murder and why Violet slashes Dorcas’s face by the knife at her funeral and how later on she seeks for peace and longs to heal herself.
Cite : Sharma, S. L. (2023). Psychoanalytical Approach on Conjugal Life in Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1st ed., pp. 11-15). Noble Science Press. https://doi.org/10.52458/9789388996570.2023.eb.ch03
