THE PROBLEMS IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON

Morrison felt the need to highlight the difficulties faced by black women in American society. Even black men do not give them respect all the time. The wielders of sexual/social/political power promote the belief that girls and women are inferior to boys and men. It is strengthened by early sexual and familial development. Feminists attach great significance to psychoanalysis because of this pervasive prejudice. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has revised Freudian theory with the help of structuralist and post-structuralist theories of discourse. Though not a protagonist of feminism, he has influenced the feminists. His work is relevant to them because they are concerned with the human subject.