In this essay I will apply some concepts of Sigmund Freud in Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
First I will discuss about Oedipus complex,which consists in the son’s desire to possess his mother and to be closely aligned to her.This idea derived from Oedip,who killed his father and married his mother.
This concept I will apply to Edward Cullen,whose mother died before he became a vampire,because of Spanish influenza.He is tormented by the ideea that she left him so quickly,and Edward Cullen lost his fulcrum and his center of life.He can’t take any sexual relationship with Bella because of this unresolved feelings toward his mother,which were transfered in the vampirehood.Edward Cullen suffers a mother fixation,and that means that he loves her mother so much,that he subconsciously considers Elizabeth|(his mother) as an idol,keeping respect to all the womens that he meets in vampirehood. For example,Edward saves Bella from a car accident,exposing his powers to a common public(superhuman speed and strength),and declares Bella his love:
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
Edward found in Bella the image of his mother,and he prefers to protect her ,to feel her safe rather than pervert her.This issue is common for man with Oedip complex.Bella is human,has a warm heart and they are incompatible as long as Edward is from another world .This result from the cover of the book,where is shown an apple,but with symbolical valence.It represents the forbidden fruit:
“The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil”(Stephenie Meyer about Twilight)
Edward was influenced by the old society where he lived when h...
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...you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed." (Edward Cullen to Bella)
Edward thinks that Bella is human and he will be just a memory into a deep corner of her heart.
In conclusion,in Twilight is a dark fiction and, if we look deeply, we can found some intersting interpretations,where we can understand better the differences between people and mentalities.
Works Cited
1) Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Print,pag 141
2) Meyer,Stephenie.New moon.New York:Little,Brown and Co.,2006,Print,pag 60
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Willbern, David. "Reading After Freud." Ed. G. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow. Contemporary Literary Theory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 158-179.
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Wilson, Sarah. "Sigmund Freud and the oedipal complex." The Guardian. N.p., 8 Mar. 2009. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. .
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