Psychoanalytic literary criticism serves as a tool to excavate the landscapernof any literary work. Following Freud's concept of psychoanalysis as arnmethod to examine the workings of the human mind, there are motives andrnmeanings that become center of attention among the classicalrnpsychoanalytic critics. The classical psychoanalytic critics treat a literaryrntext as a dreamlike and the literary analysis as a dream interpretation.rnThe literary characters are also the imaginary beings that the repressedrndesire of the author is incarnated into.rnOn the basis that any literary work can lend itself to any criticalrnapproaches, the two Oromo novels: Dhaba Weyessa's Godaannisaa ("ThernScar" and Gadisa Birru's Kuusaa Gadoo ("Cumulative Grudge") are underrnexamination of the established principles of psychoanalytic literaryrncriticism. It is also the objective of the study to analyze the psychoanalyticrnapproaches to the thematic preoccupations of the two works. Thernresearcher attempts to analyze the thematic obsessions that revolvernaround the main characters. As psychoanalytic literary criticism is oftenrncoupled with other literary theories, due attention is also given tornpsychoanalytic feminism and psychoanalysis and Marxism.rnThe two novels, which are written in the aftermath of the transitionalrngovernment of Ethiopia, in post 1991, appeared with recurrent themes andrnhence they are selected to be examined from psychoanalytic perspectives.rnUsing techniques of criticism and hermeneutics a thorough textual analysisrnand interpretation is made in order to attain the objectives set to the study.rnThe two works reflect the unconscious motives of the authors which arernrepressed in their unconscious and later projected into the characters inrnthe imaginary world-the novels. The central male characters who arerncoupled with women characters characterize the traumatic life experiencesrnof the Oromo people, particularly during the Dergue regime. The repressedrnwounds, unresolved conflicts and bitter memories appear with suchrnmechanism repression, projection and symbolism.