Celibacy as a Collective Trauma: A Freudian Rereading of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger
Author Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia [email protected] Paper DOI https://doi.org/10.59992/IJESA.2025.v4n1p6 Abstract The Great Hunger (1942) is Kavanagh’s most celebrated poem handling the antipastoral realities of farming life. One major feature of antipastoralism in the poem is the manifestation of a sexually frustrated society. This study focuses… اقرأ المزيد »Celibacy as a Collective Trauma: A Freudian Rereading of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger