Volume V Special Issue III August 2025

Name of Author : Neha, Dr Saurabh Bhardwaj

Title of the paper : Psycho Analysis of the characters in the works of Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar

Abstract: This study undertakes a psychological reading of the major characters in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar, two cornerstones of modern Indian theatre. Drawing on key ideas from Freudian and Jungian thought, it traces the motives, latent conflicts, and hidden yearnings that surface in the heroes and heroines of carefully chosen texts. While Tendulkars dialogue often brims with repressed rage, shifting gender codes, and turf wars over authority, Sircars figures speak the monotone of nothingness, isolation, and dashed civic hopes. Working through a close, qualitative analysis of props, gestures, and verbal tropes, the study shows how private wounds and collective pressures writ large steer the on stage behaviour of these creative voices. In crossing the two oeuvres, the argument does not stop at untangling individual psyches it also claims for the Indian stage a bold platform where subconscious dramas of self and society can be eerily, yet convincingly, staged.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar, Jungian Archetypes, Indian Theatre

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Page Number : 178-184