The research aims to probe into the depths of the self-concept as a complex concept that develops awareness of it as a result of social conflict and its complexities that we constantly reconsider the interpretation of our circumstances and our reality. In an automatic way, but this is done through the other by interacting with him through a series of actions and reactions, and the other presents himself every time in a different entity at each historical, political, or social event according to the situation in which it was addressed, which is what the novel represented more than other races Literary Because the history of the Arabic novel is linked to the history of the search for identity, the self, as Paul Ricoeur says, searches for its identity on the level of an entire lifeThe struggle of the self and the crisis of identity became clear in the novel (Fragments of Fairuz) by Nawzat Samdin, a conflict that was closely related to the crises that the Iraqi reality witnessed in different circumstances.