Beyond the Factions: A Psychoanalytic Study of Dream and Trauma in Insurgent

Abstract

This research builds on the psychoanalytic exploration of Veronica Roth's Divergent Series and focuses on a comparative analysis of the second novel Insurgent and its film adaptation directed by by Robert Schwentke. It looks into the relationship that develops between the characters' mental growth and the author's psychology throughout the book. The main objective is to analyze the psychology of fear as it affects the author and examining how it manifests subconsciously in the depiction of characters. This research includes a detailed study of dream study and its connection between the author and the characters, as well as a trauma study associated with the characters researched in this paper. A detailed qualitative study is conducted find the answer for the research question about whether the author unconsciously influenced the characters' fears examining the use of guilt and different methods of hypnosis to suppress a divergent-minded individual.