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    Existential Images in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
    (2017-06) Dokmane, Oumaima
    Abstract The present dissertation tries to demonstrate that Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is an existential work. It further argues that Ellison uses Existentialism to discuss the identity issue of the Afro-Americans, and he uses it as psychotherapy. To confirm this claim, the notions of bad, good faith, authenticity, absurdity, alienation, freedom, anxiety, dasein, essence, and existence coined by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre are used in analyzing key passages in Invisible Man. Additionally, The Freudian Psychoanalysis, mainly, the interpretation of dreams is utilized in conducting the study due to its relevance the question this dissertation raises. The findings of this study show that Ellison uses the philosophy of existence to tackle the issue of Afro-Americans identity.