Indian Streams Research Journal

Volume : IV, Issue : XI, December - 2014

THE EMERGENCE OF 'SYNDROME OF DECAY' IN THE INSTRUMENTS OF POWER, THE MASSES AND THE DESPOT IN THE CITY AND THE RIVER

S K Mishra, Kapil Kumar Gupta

DOI : 10.9780/22307850, By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

There is an emergence of the syndrome of decay in The City and the River as the worst sufferers of the Grand Master’s exercise of absolute power are the instruments of the power itself, which along with the masses, lose their own identity and suffer the worst kind of alienation, that is, alienation from their own selves.

Keywords :

• The Syndrome of Growth,
• Power, Collective Unconscious,
• Helplessness.
• The Syndrome of Decay,
• The Great Mother Structure,

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