Sea in Mind: Exploring
Nature’s Connection with the Human Psyche in The Old Man and
the Sea
Suman Halder
ABSTRACT
This paper intends to study psychological
connection of human beings with ecology, described in The Old Man
and The Sea by Earnest Hemingway. It will examine how narratives and
representation often limit human connection with ecology, neglecting
their inborn psychological connection to find meaning and mental
strength in this. Analyzing the novel, it will investigate how
nature as an unidentified identity gives psychological healing and
express another site of human identity. This identity and survival
processes are being treated as threat by society and forcefully
rejected by society in the name of society and culture. By applying
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung theories this paper will analyze this
text as human mind as a place where nature and nurture merge .
Keywords: Ecology, Earnest Hemingway, Psychology, Sea, Archetype
