Eco-Consciousness Dwelling and Anxiety in Selected Works by John Burnside

This research studied children exploitation rape and paranoia from an interdisciplinary perspective namely eco-criticism and psychoanalysis.The concepts of eco-consciousness and dwelling were applied to analyze the selected works'' environmental places such as gardens forests landscapes and so forth. On the other hand psychoanalysis was specified to Freud’s concept of anxiety to analyze the protagonists’ anxious feelings caused by children exploitation rape and paranoia.By utilizing these concepts the study unraveled the selected works’ natural settings as being therapeutic exits for the protagonists’ anxiety. Thus the selected works’ the protagonists in the selected works are studied as seeking solace and peace of mind in nature.