Journal of Reproduction & Infertility

Journal of Reproduction & Infertility

Psychological investigation of the novel “A stone on a grave (Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, 1980)”

Authors
Hossein Kaviani 1
Ashraf Sadat Mousavi 2
1 Psychiatry Department, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Iran
2 Psychology Department, Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, a hard working contemporary novelist, in one of his writings, has made an autobiography about a problem, which had preoccupied his minds and life for many years. This was his infertility. In this book, the author probes the problem from the beginning of its appearing; his trials for solving it, eventual excitedly reactions of it, and compatibility with being “childlessness”. Memories have been designed as form of a novel. In research work, there is always, this possibility that, a quantitative “approach” cause to deprive us from some “qualitative”. May be psychological investigation of some novels specially those, which deal with “problem” of author, could fill this emptiness. This matter is the goal of this article for psychological investigation of infertility.
Keywords
Infertility
Jalal Al
e
Ahmad
Psychological analysis
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Journal of Reproduction & Infertility
Volume 2, Issue 4
Autumn 2001
Pages 4-13