Unconscious and The 'Kernel Of Our being'- A study of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Abstract

It assumes Karnad’s Hayavadana and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot explore the mysterious enigmatic philosophy of life, the root of which lies mainly in the unconscious realm of mind. In these two plays, we see, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic notions or the conscious and the unconscious contents of mind play a crucial role upon human activities to fulfil the desire of completeness or recognition, to reach the unattainable and such types. In one word, mind desires its order upon reality, resulting, though apparently, something irrational and illogical, incoherent, or a conflict between two aspects, both in socio-cultural and metaphysical aspects – Apollonian and Dionysian – as the vital truth of human existence. The process effects in identity crisis complexity, destruction, absurdity, above all, a kind of illusion.