Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Jane Eyre Psychoanalytical Criticism


The Unconscious, the Desires, and the Defenses

·         The unconscious is influenced by events that happen during one’s childhood

o   Relationships with parents

o   Drives of desire and pleasure

§  5 Stages of Psychosexual Development: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital

Id, Ego, and Superego

·         Id

o   energy for basic drives, primitive and instinctive component of the personality

·         Ego

o   decision making component of the personality, realistic ways to satisfy the id’s demands

·         Superego

o   Controls the id’s impulses (sex and aggression)

Oedipus Complex

·         Children’s need for their parents

·         Boys and girls wish to possess their mothers

o   As they age they believe that they cannot have all of their mother’s attention because of their fathers àrage against the father

·         Different for boys and girls

o   Boys identify with fathers eventually in hopes of getting a woman like their mothers

o   Girls shift their sexual desire from the mother to the father
 

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