AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO J.D. SALINGER’S THE CATCHER IN THE RYE VIA KELLY’S PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO J.D. SALINGER’S THE CATCHER IN THE RYE VIA KELLY’S PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The paper expands upon issues related to the ego’s dual knowledge of the body and heart in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. To tackle this topic, Bachelard’s concern for the psychological and aesthetic conscious and unconscious sides of human personality and Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory have been chosen as methodological interpretative lenses, the latter through the Kellian constructs of threat, fear, guilt, anxiety, certainty, hostility, aggressiveness and his corollaries based on the fundamental postulate that a person’s processes are psychologically channelized by the way in which he or she anticipates events.

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