Prison literature is a literary genre that documents the suffering and resistance of detainees as a testament to the abuses of power. This is profoundly manifested in Syrian prison literature, which immortalizes the human tragedy and preserves the resilience of the human spirit. These texts enable the decoding of the interactions between the "Self" and the "Other," as well as the mechanisms of meaning production, revealing the deep structures of deprivation and the reshaping of collective consciousness. The problematic of this research centers on the mechanisms of self-formation and meaning-making within the prison space, drawing on George Herbert Mead's theory of Symbolic Interactionism to analyze the novel The General's Coffee. By adopting a pragmatic and descriptive-analytical approach, the study aims to provide a sociological reading that transcends the mere documentary dimension, uncovering the interactional structures of the characters and enriching the epistemological dialogue between literature and the social sciences. The study reveals that the self in the novel is formed as a dynamic, fragmented process between the rebellious "I" (the active self) and the "Me" (the object self) that internalizes norms; where the "generalized other" transforms from an integrative reference into a coercive authority that threatens the individual's psychological structure. Furthermore, it demonstrates that meaning is not derived from things themselves but from symbolic interaction. While the prison authority seeks to assassinate meaning by severing the symbolic connection, the prisoners employ an interactional intelligence that reproduces signification out of nothingness, transforming discarded objects into symbols charged with the highest human values