Sensory Impulses and Cognitive Mapping: Unraveling the Mythical Thread of the Eye of Horus in Nawal El Saadawi's Women at Point Zero

Abstract

 Physical impulses can be employed as a communication tool with the outside world due to the structure and organization of the human brain. Cognition is sparked by sensory perception. When children are consistently exposed to sensory experiences, they develop an understanding of their external reality, shaping and designing their internal view. The central nervous system converts these physical impulses into signals and stores the information in the modules of the brain as signals. According to embodiment theory, which is based on the idea that the body and the mind correlate, the materialized body impacts how thoughts are processed. The interdependency between sight and insight is the subject of this paper, along with the relationship between this duality and the mythic system. The novel Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi uses eye symbolisms excessively, signifying the Egyptian mythology of the Eye of Horus. This paper is structured into three areas. The first part deals with the Egyptian mythology of the Eye of Horus and further allusions to the third eye. The second part investigates eye symbolism in the novel, and the third part focuses on the sight-insight interplay. In brief, this paper is about how the author uses sight-insight connectedness to describe the famous mythical Eye of Horus pattern and how the outward and inward vision develops throughout the work.