The Psychoanalysis of 1984

His creation throws him into multiple depressions and Victor struggles to maintain a stable life. In the end, Walton considers Victor’s demise from a disastrous appetite for “nature’s secrets” as a lesson for his own conquest for glory and knowledge. In this, Shelley uses Frankenstein to warn society about its further audacity in pushing boundaries to uncomfortable limits. In the beginning, Shelley uses foreshadowing to allude to Victor’s ultimate demise due to his unrestricted curiosity. In describing his own childhood, Victor keeps referring to his imminent doom: his interest in science which he describes as “the fatal impulse that led to [his] ruin” (Shelley, 39).

Do it to Julia! Not Me! Julia! I don 't care what you do to her! Tear her face off, strip her to the bones.

As he began researching psychoanalysis he emerged as a full-blown critic of Freud. He created a group called the Freud-Bashers which he was the leader of. He wrote, “what researchers were now revealing was that Freud himself was possibly a charlatan—an opportunistic self-dramatizer who deliberately misrepresented the scientific bona

Hitchcock’s understanding of philosophy can be seen in his film Vertigo and illustrates how many theories can be debilitating in everyday life. Into the Mind of Freud through the Mind of Hitchcock One of the philosophies that Hitchcock tackles is that of Sigmund Freud. Freud is known for psychoanalysis and his interpretation of dreams. Specifically, Freud’s theories can be seen with the character of Scottie in Vertigo. John “Scottie” Ferguson, who is the main protagonist in the film, is controlled by many factors in his subconscious which lead to his weaknesses and downfall.

Accordingly, Freud hypothesized that the majority of people were obliged to hide their unacceptable thoughts and feelings down in the depths of their unconscious from whence they would inevitably escape from at a later time to manifest in a variety of ways. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde illustrates Freud’s theory of repression throughout the entirety of the story and shows the negative consequences associated with this coping strategy. Henry Jekyll is the character who has repressed the most and who consequently suffers the direst of outcomes. In his statement of his experiences leading up to the emergence of Edward Hyde, one anticipates the revelation of some early trauma of a fairly significant scale that would clarify the man’s need to regress to an alternate identity. However, Jekyll’s letter is free from any mention of anything of the sort.

After May '68 Paris Deleuze begins a collaboration with the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, who was active as political militant of the extreme left. So after writing essays which resumed his university courses (dedicated to the study of empiricism, Spinoza and especially the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche), Deleuze suddenly acquires notoriety in the extra-academic sectors with two works of great complexity : the Anti- Oedipus (1972) and its sequel A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both subtitled “Capitalism and Schizophrenia”. The main critical target of Anti- Oedipus is psychoanalysis, accused to see desire only within the family relationships (the Oedipus complex), and not as something genetically revolutionary and creator of new orders, as the two believed. This Anti-Oedipal theory has literary implications as well: psychoanalytic interpretations, for example, had been suggested over the years for Kafka’s works, seeing the authority, the Law, the bureaucracy as figures of the father – this is what Deleuze is trying to take down with his book “Kafka: toward a minor literature”. In other words, the accusation to psychoanalysts is to have weakened the concept of the unconscious, thus ending up with enslaving psychoanalysis to the power of the State, the Church and the Market.

Following from this metaphorical paradigm, Freud's theories on narcissism, the libido theory, the doppelganger, neurosis, and the Oedipus-complex all resonate in the pages of Frankenstein. After a brief introduction to narcissism and the libido theory, a psychoanalytic character study of Victor and the monster will be preformed. Finally, the romantic works of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Wordsworth will further demonstrate the Freudian phenomenon. Freud declares that mankind has suffered three major blows, the "destruction of the narcissistic illusion" (Freud, "One of the Difficulties of Psycho-Analysis," 5), that permanently destabilized how individuals envisioned themselves in relation to the exterior world. These three blows were: The Cosmological, where the Copernican Revolution dislodged mankind from the center of the universe.

To the reader Sydney is presented as a man who places alcohol as his first priority. But now that he has met Lucie, he begins to set his priorities straight and he pyts Lucie in fro... ... middle of paper ... ...ause she kills herself by her own immorality. The three characters who have moral or immoral conversions are Sydney Carton, Dr. Alexandre Manette, and Madame Defarge. By ending his life to rescue the life of Charles, Sydney reaches the climax of morality, Dr. Manette grows morally and he is no longer the hermit stuck in the prison cell, Madame Defarge converts to immortality which in the end kills her. In conclusion, it is evident that in this novel those who had a moral conversions were rewarded with true happiness earthly or otherwise, while those who had immoral conversions were doomed to eternal damnation.

He also changes the point of view to the second person, causing the reader to feel the emotion directed at themselves. This writing alone makes the reader understand how Winston’s seemingly obvious position in society is obscured by the complexity of his situation. By studying this passage, a reader will begin to understand the manipulation and confusion that a totalitarian government can cause, destroying the sanity of its people until they have no choice but to obey. Winston even admits that despite all the claims he could make against his governments validity, the government could be right. He know he does not have the mental ability to figure everything out on his own, so it was inevitable for him to eventually

Humbert is now creating vivid dreams to be deconstructed solely for his amusement and openly mocking Freud. “Primal scenes” was a term coined by Freud during the early 20th century that is used to describe a child’s first exposure to sexual acts. Humbert is concocting primal scenes and allowing psychiatrists to dispense meretricious worth to them. The establishment of Freudian dichotomy has created an individual externally and internally stripped of humanity and left only with the attributes of a demonized man. Works Cited Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.