Psychoanalysis of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Abstract

This work aims to investigate trauma in literature. More specifically, this research study seeks to psychoanalyze the abuse that Pecola Breedlove had to suffer from; Pecola is the main character in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, applying psychoanalytical criticism theory; that of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Jacques Lacan