Alienation and the Labyrinth of the Self in “Mokachafat fi Machhad Almawt” by Othman Loucif

Abstract

Alienation is one of the most important phenomena employed in modernist poetry, as it reflects the contradictions, failure, and sense of loss witnessed by contemporary human beings, imposed by lived reality and society. This drives the poet to retreat into the self, embracing psychological and spiritual estrangement and creating different worlds that transcend reality, history, time, and space. The poetic text “Mokachafat fi Mashhad Almawt” by Othman Loucif represents a model of contemporary modernist texts that express alienation, the labyrinth of the self, its loss, fragmentation, and dispersion.