Abstract:
David Stephen Mitchell's Ghostwritten is a postmodern novel that captures several realities and tackles one among many serious issues of our contemporary world, namely, terrorism.
This research focuses on the main character, the terrorist Quasar, found in the first chapter. This research work attempts at using the psychoanalysis theory as a means to examine the protagonist Quasar under four vital concepts that are trauma, brainwashing, personality transformation, and the death drive. Relying on these concepts, we get a clear understanding
of the terrorist psyche, the way it functions, and its motives.
