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Caryl Phillips’ post-colonial novel The Lost Child, all of which features a variety of stories focused on the subject of loneliness, explores the psychological effects of uterus and child neglect. In particular, in terms of identity struggles and the problem of self-righteousness, the effects of loneliness that arise as a result of family difficulties that lead to individuals' psychological trauma are addressed from a post-colonial perspective. The characters in Phillips's novel either experience loneliness or parentality or both at once. Characters’ children or parents either separate physically or often have to stay separated with each other with an unavoidable communication gap. In the study, the psychological trauma of the other lost children of the empire, including Ben and Tommy, who disappear and disappear between their parents Monica and Julius Wilson's disinterest, who are exposed to living in a society they see as other due to their self-identity, will be dealt with from an identity-problematic perspective. The selfishment, which is experienced due to economic and psychological reasons created by the colonial mind, reveals the milestone generations that form between two-party life and culture, leading to conflicts within the family, the loss of cultural self. At this point in the work of the post-colonialism in the British society, in the light of self-experiences, the psychological trauma in which children and their families experience will be rejected by post-colonial theory, sociological and psychological.

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