The Dynamics And Exigency Of The Quest For Self Identity: A Psychoanalytic Exploration Of Jude Dibia’s Unbridled And Walking With Shadows

This research work presents a focus on the nature and nuances of identity, through the lens of psychoanalysis and queer criticism respectively for the two novels under study. ABSTRACT  Axiomatically, identity is the defining pivot of our lives; therefore, it is an exigency. The struggle for identity  and self-realisation forms  the overriding premise  of this  dissertation, especially as this struggle is reflected in the lives of Ngozi Akachi and Adrian Ebele Njoko, the protagonists of Unbridled  and  Walking  with  Shadows  respectively.  Accordingly,  therefore,  the  theory  of psychoanalys…