Distortions of Perception: A Psychoanalytic Study of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl

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This study establishes a detailed critical analysis of The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat using the integrative theoretical framework, based on the synthesis of psychology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and literary modernism. The study avoids a fractious methodology of analysis, therefore taking the novel as a literary case study of perceptual and psychological disintegration. It shows that the hallucinatory experiences of the narrator are the direct reflections of the clinical symptoms of the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS), but are also the symbolic expressions of the repressed trauma that can be observed through the Freudian psychoanalytic prism. Further