Essays about: "psychoanalytic criticism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words psychoanalytic criticism.

  1. 6. The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Willy Loman's Character : A Freudian and Marxist Analysis of Death of a Salesman

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Maya Noras; [2020]
    Keywords : Repression; Projection; Frustration; Defense mechanisms; Marxism; The American Dream;

    Abstract : The field of psychoanalysis makes it possible to make an in-depth study of the protagonist in the play Death of a Salesman. After performing such an analysis, this paper suggests that Willy suffers from mental illness and that he is obsessed with living the American Dream. READ MORE

  3. 7. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RELIABILITY OF JANE EYRE: The Narrating Self’s Function in the Novel

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Zdravka Katinic; [2019-05-06]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Charlotte Brontë; narratology; psychoanalytic criticism;

    Abstract : The fact that Charlotte Brontë intended Jane Eyre as an autobiography is easily overlooked. Therefore, one tends to not take into account that the stated author Jane Rochester is technically both the main character and narrator of the story. READ MORE

  4. 8. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation : Jay Gatsby’s Id, Superego, Ego, and Core Issues

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Flavia Miranda O'Shea; [2019]
    Keywords : The Great Gatsby; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic criticism; id ego superego; fear of abandonment; low self-esteem; insecure sense of self; Jay Gatsby;

    Abstract : The present essay attempts a psychoanalytic interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby’s id, superego, ego, and core issues. The first stage of the paper offers an analysis of Gatsby’s id, superego and ego; and finds that the id largely rules his behaviour, with few instances where the ego takes control and manifests the superego. READ MORE

  5. 9. I'm Not One of Them but I'm Not One of You : An Analysis of The Effects of Patriarchy and Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Donjeta Osmani; [2019]
    Keywords : Nervous Conditions; Tambudzai; Nyasha; Cultural Hybridity; Patriarchy; Feminism;

    Abstract : This essay examines how the factors that inspire Tambudzai and Nyasha to counter the patriarchy are portrayed and how these factors contribute to the formation of hybrid identities among the younger generation of women in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Both characters are faced with different predicaments which makes it necessary to divide the factors in regard to each character. READ MORE

  6. 10. Unsubstantial Territories : Nomadic Subjectivity as Criticism of Psychoanalysis in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Andrey Belov; [2019]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; The Waves; Jacques Lacan; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Rosi Braidotti; psychoanalysis; subjectivity; nomadic subjectivity;

    Abstract : This essay looks at subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves employing a psychoanalytic approach and using the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Woolf’s relation to the theories of her contemporary Sigmund Freud was unclear. READ MORE