Hi
Here is my Statement of the Problem:
As the title of the thesis shows the researcher focus is on the analyses of the three concepts of Lack,Self and Belonging, reflected in the selected novellas of Auster.

As written, my problem statement is not quite as informative as it could be. I have to write what kind of lack you will be discussing. Lack of what? Belonging to what? But I have the same questions about self and belonging. What I mean by self? Because this adds a lot of information, I would like to split the problem statement into two sentences, so it might look something like this:

As the title of the thesis shows, this paper will examine Auster’s novels from a postmoderist perspective, focusing on [some word that sums up all three concepts (pyschological understandings?)]. These [whatever your sum up word is] are lack of any transcendental signifier, self as non stable and everchanging[something] transient fragmented, and the idea of belonging to X.
Thanks.