Essays about: "idealized object"

Found 3 essays containing the words idealized object.

  1. 1. Male nostalgia is a dead teenage girl : The romantic nostalgia of idealized traumatic female adolescence in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Tova Hirsch; [2020]
    Keywords : Teenage girls; female adolescence; nostalgia; perfect femininity; Sofia Coppola; girlhood; female trauma;

    Abstract : The historic portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema as a mythical, sexual, hyper feminine and contemporary creature makes way for a specific but fairly common trope. Namely a trope where the teenage girl is used to elicit nostalgia and romance for the male protagonist, specifically because of her trauma and pain. READ MORE

  3. 2. Idealized Gendered Behaviors in The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för konst, kommunikation och lärande

    Author : Heidi Hartvik; [2018]
    Keywords : The Hunger Games; gender performativity; traditional gender roles; masculinity; femininity; ideal-ized behaviors;

    Abstract : Suzanne Collin’s trilogy The Hunger Games has become an international bestseller, and tells the story about Katniss Everdeen, a young citizen of District 12 in Panem. The object of this essay is to demonstrate that nurturing, being a warrior and pursuing beauty are the most idealized behaviors in The Hunger Games trilogy. READ MORE

  4. 3. Beloved as a Good Object : A Kleinian Reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Camilla Stenlöv; [2012]
    Keywords : object relations theory; psychoanalysis; relationship; Morrison; Beloved; good object; idealized object; bad object; Freud; Klein;

    Abstract : The text of Beloved will be analyzed with a Kleinian and Freudian approach in order to show how the characters see each other as good or bad objects. This essay begins with an explanation of terms and a short presentation of psychoanalysis and object relations theory. READ MORE