الفهرس 
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Abstract
Abstract
Escapism literature has many connotations and influences, it means both the readers
read to escape and they escape to read .This kind of literature is mainly concerned with
providing both physical and psychological retreat or escape to the more permanent things like
ideal and imaginary worlds and characters for the sake of providing entertainment, relief from
daily life tensions and problems. Therefore it involves separation, evading and running away
from dangers. Thus this thesis aims to study escapism literature in relation to the wellknown
contemporary British novelist Joanne K. Rowling’s The Harry Potter Novels. It
aims also to study how far escapism and wish fulfillment are both integrating and relating
to the psychoanalysis theory of Freud. Harry escapes the Dursleys first psychologically by
enjoying his wizarding skills and intrusions by characters and signals from Hogwarts,
then physically by running away from their Muggle (non-magic folk) house to live in the wizarding secondary world of Hogwarts. Later, through the whole series he escapes the evil of
Lord Voldemort.
Escapism intermingles with wish fulfillment as the first always is accompanied by alienation even among family and relatives. When someone escapes from a certain society he
is feeling or experiencing alienation, regardless of the rightfulness of his views or his will to
change and remedy the ills in his society. Thus escapism is not totally negative as the
negative connotation of the word denotes cowardice and weakness. Escapist writers like
Rowling are constantly not only try to evade the social problems of their mundane world but offer ideal fanciful universes whether built within their world or entering through
portals,or looking for the future or nostalgically looking back to the lost dreamy past. Escapism is constantly linked to wish fulfillment that, according to Freudian psychoanalysis refers to something in literature that satisfies the conscious or subconscious
desires of either the writer or the reader of a literary work. Most of children’s fiction and fairy-tales have some elements of wish fulfillment like offering exotic landscapes that make
use of magic and mythology.
The study will focus on the following novels by Joan K. Rowling:
Harry Potter and the Philosophical Stone (1997),Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret
(1998),Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999),Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix (2003), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (200