REPRESENTATION OF THE PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS AND NARRATIVE SITUATION IN SHORT STORIES FROM PROJECT “AAN-YAA-JAI”

Abstract

This research article aimed to analyze representation of patients with depressive disorders and narrative situation used in a collection of short stories in “Aan-Yaa-jai” project which were published in 2021 and 2022 based on the concept of representation.
The results of the research were as follows. 1) Representation of patients with depressive disorders could be divided into 3 characteristics, including causes and origins of patients with depressive disorders, psychological symptoms of patients with depression, and physical symptoms of patients with depression. Overall, the representation of patients with depressive disorders which mostly appeared in the short stories was patients with depression who have lived through losses. 2) The narrative situation could be divided into 5 characteristics, including intradiegetic-homodiegetic narrator with internal focalization, extradiegetic-heterodiegetic narrator with internal focalization, extradiegetic-heterodiegetic narrator with zero focalization, extradiegetic-heterodiegetic narrator with external focalization and Intradiegetic, and heterodiegetic narrator with internal focalization, respectively.