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@article{183216,
        author = {Mrs. CHILKA ANITA},
        title = {The Psychoanalytic Concept of the Unknown in Exploring the text to try and Uncover Underlying Patterns of Significance in Chinua Achebe’s novel 'Arrow of God'.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {8},
        pages = {3595-3603},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=183216},
        abstract = {Arrow of God, the fourth novel by Chinua Achebe, is a terrifying tale of catastrophic transformation in which a traditional civilization loses its cultural identity due to both internal and external forces. The protagonist's personality and choices, as well as the colonialists' interference, have frequently been the subject of critical debate. The text has often been interpreted at that level because of the strong sense of facticity throughout. In order to try and find underlying patterns of meaning, this article explores the text using the psychoanalytic concept of the unknown. That would allow us to grasp the scope and long-term effects of the action in this book as well as the depths of a complex protagonist—possibly the most intriguing of Achebe's characters.},
        keywords = {change, desire, power, proverb, struggle, sympathy, the unknown, the unconscious.},
        month = {July},
        }