J.K. Rowling’s Concept of Leadership and Decision-making: A Freudian Analysis of the Harry Potter Series

Abstract

In essence, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been considered one of the major literary works that are rich and well supplied with leadership concepts and decision-making styles. In the meantime, it is a kind of a reflection of the writer's actual life experiences. Moreover, J.K. Rowling herself is an effective leader who has influenced readers worldwide and has improved her reality by a distinguished decision-making spirit. This research paper has investigated the hidden connections beyond reality in the writer's real-life and fiction in the series. It aimed to analyse the writer's concept of leadership and decision-making according to the Freudian theory of personality structure, then relate it to the three main characters in the story. This work has been approached by a psychoanalytic, historical, biographical, and comparative approach. Equally important, the employment of the Freudian theory has resulted in revealing the fact that Rowling's psyche is reflected through the Harry Potter series, namely, through Harry, Hermione, and Ron, as, Ego, Superego, and Id, of the writer respectively. Eventually, the actual events in the different stages of the writer’s life had a remarkable impact and traces on the plots of the series