Document Type : Research paper
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1 professor in department of Arabic language and its literature: Imam Khomeini International university
2 PhD student in Imam Khomeini International University
Abstract
Austrian Alfred Adler strengthened personality analysis by presenting the theory of individual psychology. Adler does not consider human a separate unit and studies a person’s personality affected by social context. The most important concepts of this theory are humiliation and compensatory mechanism, superiority complex, mass communication, life style, creative self and social interest. The main goal of the present study is to analyze “ISIS” personality in “the Bird Tattoo” novel by “Dunya Mikhail” based on the mentioned theory and using an analytical-descriptive approach. The most important achieved results show that among the four discussed life styles by Adler, the ISIS life style falls into the first category, that is the “dominant type” which lacks social interest. In fact, by taking this apparently Islamic life style and ignoring other people in the society and attacking them, ISIS tries to reach its main goal which is the Islamic caliphate. Factors such as feeling jealous or fear, lacking empathy with others, not having social interest and the tendency towards violence and sadism play a role in forming ISIS terrorist group and their raging dominance. This violent tendency and enjoying from it are heavily promoted and intensified by modern media, formal training and socialization of forces and reflect a special and exclusive life style resulted from their personality bases.
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