Rahim 1 Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner : A Psychoanalytic Analysis Abdur Rahim Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature (DELL), Premier University Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner has been considered to be a great work since its publication. It has been translated into different languages. The novel can be analyzed from psychoanalytic point of view as advocated by Sigmund Freud in his psychoanalytical theory. The author, in this article, has taken the major aspects of the theory such as id, superego, Oedipus Complex etc. and incorporated them in the novel The Kite Runner . He shows how the protagonist of the novel namely Amir suffers from id or polymorphous desires in his childhood which are channeled in course of the development of the novel into something structured because of the application of the reality principle or superego. Every major incident of his life has been analyzed here to incorporate them with Freudic theory. The minor characters and incidents have also been analyzed with a view to establishing the author’s targeted goal. The available literature related to the theory has been applied to establish the intended synthesis. Psychoanalytic analysis of literature can be applied to any literary piece as it is based on human psyche and its multifarious functions on human beings in their social, political and cultural life. Sigmund Freud is thought to be the originator of this theoretical genre. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner can be studied with all the attributions of Freudic psychoanalytic parameters. This article aims at finding out how the portrayed characters in the novel can be attributed with psychoanalytic characteristics as analyzed by Sigmund Freud in his theoretical paradigm namely psychoanalysis. At first the author shows how the protagonist of the novel namely Amir experiences ids because of different complexities related to his family and social