Essays about: "complex of Oedipus"

Found 5 essays containing the words complex of Oedipus.

  1. 1. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Kajsa Erikson; [2021]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; psychoanalysis; feminism; Oedipus complex; bisexuality; castration; hysteria; melancholia;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Mother's Failure : An Analysis of Mrs. Morel in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Oskar Persson Brunsell; [2020]
    Keywords : Sons and Lovers; Mothering; D.H. Lawrence; Oedipus Complex; Psychoanalysis;

    Abstract : D.H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, written in 1913 is an autobiographical novel that captures the Morel’s disharmonious family situation. Critics have many times looked at Mr. READ MORE

  4. 3. Conjuring a Carnival of Denial: How the Oedipus Complex Manifests in the Sociosexual Fringes of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Rion Farmer; [2018]
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  5. 4. Humanity Dehumanized: Fordian and Freudian Models in Huxley’s "Brave New World"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Antonio Domenico Saracino; [2011-07-04]
    Keywords : Huxley; Henry Ford; psychology; individualism; complex of Oedipus;

    Abstract : This essay deals with major topics in Huxley’s Brave New World, the concepts of production efficiency applied to every day’s life, psychology and psychoanalysis. These concepts, which came to the public’s general attention in the beginning of the 20th century, are in the novel taken to the extreme, thus becoming instrumental in the fictionalized controlled society: the figures of Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud are assimilated to one, divine person. READ MORE

  6. 5. Interpreting The Denizens of The Hundred Acre Wood : Freudian & Lacanian psychoanalytical concepts in Winnie-The-Pooh

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Timothy Pettersson; [2009]
    Keywords : Winnie-the-Pooh; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; psychoanalytic literary criticism; Oedipus complex; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic interpretation; literary criticism; Christopher Robin; unconscious; Nalle Puh; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; psykoanalys; litteraturteori; psykoanalytisk litteraturteori; oedipuskomplex;

    Abstract : In this paper I have strived to provide a new view on a timeless classic of children’s literature, Winnie-The-Pooh. In psychoanalytic literary criticism concepts and theories of psychoanalysis is implemented while interpreting literature; in this paper, I have interpreted the novel incorporating concepts of the psychoanalytic schools of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan while arguing that the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood are manifestations of parts of the narrator’s unconscious. READ MORE