An investigation of Parvin E'tesami’s poems with an approach to reaction theory (double compensation) of Alfred Adler

Studies reflecting the women’s image in society has always been of interest to the different fields of science which can be considered from different aspects. Parvin E'tesami is one of the prominent poets of the constitutional era and the reign of Reza Shah, whose poems in the realm of literature have moral, social and political themes. Regarding the Adler’s personality theory in psychology, this study aimed to investigate the reflection of the inferiority complexes and compensation methods against the governing community in the poems of Parvin E’tesami. E’tesami in her poems criticized the man-centered society by describing the disillusioned emotions and feelings of women. Authors attempt to represent the procedure of transforming the feeling of inferiority to the complex and the reaction of compensation against the pressures of injustice towards women in her poems. Results revealed that disregarding her and her counterparts in the patriarchal environment has created a feeling of inferiority and the resulting complex. The poet, as a represntative of deprived and disillusioned women, highlights the role of women in the society in order to compensate the inferiority.