Essays about: "psychoanalytic interpretation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words psychoanalytic interpretation.

1. 1. Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Brian Burns; [2021]
   Keywords : Postcolonialism; Postcolonial Literary Theory; Hybridization; Walker; Malouf; Phillips; Achebe; Freud; Nietzsche; Bhabha; Siad; McLeod; Barry;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to provide a perspective on literature inculpating colonialism using postcolonial literary theory and method. The subject material incorporates four novels studied during the literature modules for the English course at Högskolan Gävle (HIG). READ MORE

3. 2. 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

4. 3. 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. 4. A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Feminist Interpretation of Marie in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Sebastian Höglund; [2018]
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   Abstract : This thesis is an analysis of Marie’s struggle for empowerment within a patriarchal system in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine. The main focus of this thesis is the untangling of Marie’s desire: why does she choose the path that she has taken in life and why is she seemingly unable to feel content? Marie’s life takes place within a patriarchal framework and this paper utilizes feminist theory to delineate this framework and demonstrate its oppressiveness. READ MORE

6. 5. To Peer Into The Abyss : a psychoanalytical analysis of edgar allan poe's the imp of the perverse

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Fredrik Åslund; [2012]
   Keywords : edgar allan poe; psychoanalytic; literal studies; psychoanalytical literal theory;

   Abstract : This essay is based on the premise of psychoanalytical literal theory through a perspective of the author-imprint, or the mirroring neural-effect of the author as an external persona - a force influencing, constructing and enforcing traits, intertextual messages and sublime meanings of the subconscious in the primary text material – the short story Imp of the Perverse, published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. The aim is to view this short story in light of Poe's empirically documented destructive personality, proposing that the message of the story, in itself, is more than simply a tale, but part of a larger contextual idea sprung from the pained soul of the author. READ MORE