Moreover, since literary work portrays human life, this phenomenon of absence’s mother is also possibly taking place in it. The absence of mother is considered to critically affect the development of the children later in the future. However, the world rolls the eye when such a role is absent from the children life. Her presence becomes crucial to develop her children, be it in their physical, social, or psychological aspects. As Raphael-Leff (2003) said that if no one person was there to be mother, the task of young’s development is infinitely complicated. That mother being an integral part of human’s or even every living creature’s life is fairly undeniable statement. We will show how deprivation from the establishment of an unsatisfying contact with this primary love object (mother) can wreak havoc in the characters’ psyche and cause their ego to move towards establishing relations with their internal objects instead of natural, real objects in their external world. This research aims to explore these psychic anxieties and the influence of this early female figure on the siblings’ relationship in the light of object relations theory of the psychoanalysis attributable to the Fairbairnian, Kleinnian, and Winnicottian analytic traditions. Nevertheless, in this study, we trace the psychoanalytical origins of the psychic anxieties and tensions into childhood and also highlight a much earlier female (mother) influence. Earlier psychoanalytical studies have acknowledged the conflicts in McEwan's works.

In this paper, we present a close reading of The Cement Garden by elucidating some of the psychoanalytical reflections of Jack, the narrator, and his siblings concentrating on the mother- child theory and interactions between them.

The novel goes beyond the normal limits in investigating the impact of abnormal situations on human relationships.

Encountering this bitter emotional deprivation in their relationships with their primary loved objects, their parents (particularly the mother), the children struggle with their surroundings they reside in in order to survive both physically and emotionally. The Cement Garden, first published in 1978, is mainly centred on four traumatized siblings whose parents die suddenly, first the father, then the mother.

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan