'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - T. S. Eliot.
Freudian psychoanalytical ideas show personality split into Id, ego + super-ego.
Depth + personality to character from using Freud's theory.
Essay will cover: Freudian psychoanalysis- Oedipus complex, the unconscious, Id, ego + super-ego.
Lois Tyson.
Analysing how psychoanalysis can be applied to extract.
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Theory 1
Theory 1:
The unconscious = dynamic. Repression + unconscious = processes. Return of repressed- dreams, Freudian slips, neurosis + psychosis. All reveal unconscious fears + desires.
Oedipus Complex:mother = love object- ****** desire. Father = competition- destructive desire. Resolution: boy- identifies with father, castration anxiety. Compensation = inherits paternal power. Girl- identifies with mother, penis envy. Compensation = has a baby.
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Theory 2
Theory 2:
Sigmund Freud 'The Ego and the Id'.
Id = new born child- no sense of self in relation to world. Mass of undefined, undifferentiated desires. Primitive biological needs- pleasure + avoid pain. Pleasure principle- Id wants fulfilment of desires, incapable of depriving itself.
Ego = sense of self- Id meets real world. Conscious awareness. Reality principle- self-preservation. Wants pleasure- able to defer pleasure. Psychic functions- organising thoughts, interpreting out relation to the external, anxiety.
Super-ego = self control. Judgements of society- parents, teachers, church, law, etc. Formed through Oedipus complex- represents father figure, voice of authority. Partly conscious, partly escapes during sleep.
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Key Individuals
Key Individuals:
Sigmund Freud.
Lois Tyson 'Critical Theory Today': defences break down, experience anxiety. Anxiety reveals core issues, eg fear of intimacy, fear of betrayal and low self-esteem.
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Text Quotes
Text Quotes:
"Do I dare?" - Freud's idea of super-ego. Debates whether to do something but has control not to. Id would just do it without consideration.
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - Freud's Id, ego and super-ego. Feels he has been too measured- relates to Tyson's core issues. Fear of intimacy or abandonment- means he was too careful/measured in order to avoid these things.
"They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!'" - Tyson: defences breaking down + core issue of low self-esteem revealed through his anxiety.
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