Psychoanalysis of personalities of Kavous,Garsivaz and inferiority complex of Siavash in Shaahnaameh

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The roots of many events in a story can be found by psychological research about the characters of that literary work and study of their behavioral characteristics. In this article , by psychoanalysis of the behaviors and acts of the paranoid and psychopathic personalities of Kavous and Garsivas, and studying the inferiority complex in Siavosh, it has been attempted to analyze the cause and effect relationships of many important events of their lives. Kavous personality has the paranoid behavioral characteristics like wrong judgments and self ishness : and going to Mazandaran , fighting with Hamavaran and flying to the sky are reflections of them .The Psychopathic pcrsonality of Garsivaz led him to malice. self conceiting and ruthlessness. The roots of inferiority complex in Siavosh kept him away from Kavous and made him to get closer to his enemy, Afrasiab.

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