Exploring Psychological Scars: PTSD Motifs in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love

Abstract

In Origins of Love, characters process their trauma of abortion, infertility, biomedical abuse, and the like and arrive at a resolution. Most of the characters have a back story, which leads to intense emotional and psychological reactions when triggered. The general risk factors associated with the development of PTSD have contributed to the characters in the novel suffering from trauma-related depression. The paper elucidates each character and his/her psychological scar, which is apparent PTSD symptoms.