A Theoretical Investigation of Inferiority Complex Phenomenon and the Mechanisms of Compensation in Adonis and Shamlu's Poetry based on Adler's Psychoanalysis

For a long time, literature has been of special interest to great analysts and critics, while focusing on psychology, sociology and politics, and its original mechanisms. In this regard, Shamlu and Adonis are respectively the contemporary poets in Persian and Arabic literature, and have both directed poetry and literary works to normative form and meaning. The current article's theoretical framework, using a descriptive-analytical method relyies on Adler's theory of inferiority felling and focuses on such aspects as the relation of literature to psychology and Adler's theory of inferiority feeling and its effect on the artistic background of these two poets. The current article attempts to match these axes with the works of these two poets giving rise to a new approach for researchers and readers. One of the results of this study is that both poets have experienced the same psychological process in their artistic careers; this sets the ground for implementing this psychological process and its manifestations on their poetic experience. Moreover, these two poets experienced the same negative conditions at the beginning of their youth and this has led to their tragic literature, followed by a dialectic between humiliation and redress.