A Study of Firdaus’ Identity in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero Through Freud’ Psychoanalytic Criticism.

Abstract

The study discussed the main character Firdaus in El Saadawi’s novel Woman at point Zero. The researcher concerned and focused on Firdaus’s identity is a product of her internal conflicts, and her sexual experience based on Freud’ Psychoanalytic criticism. By her internal conflict, it made her dilemma in choosing what is the best for her and led her to the clash in the id, ego, and superego. In finding, her id won to control over her to build her identity as prostitute. Yet, in her sexual experiences based on libido stages, the researcher has limitation from the data in the story. Therefore, the researcher analyzed her sexual development, started from phallic stage until puberty.