Alex, who is referred to as a girl in this paper due to her parents considering to be such, establishes both independence from her family and experiences an romantic relationship with someone outside the family; these could both be considered criteria for Freud's last psychosexual stage. ... They actually start to engage in romantic relationships outside of the family unit, which helps them to further discover their sexuality. ... Alex's relationship with Alvaro is a representation of her seeking relationships, as well as romantic and sexual gratification, outside of the family cir...

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The romantic relationships in this novel provide some human behaviors that serve as rich topics for psychoanalytic criticism. ... Close relationships dig up the psychological residue of earlier family conflicts and bring into play aspects of a person's identity that they don't want to deal with or even know about, the best way to avoid painful psychological self-awareness is to avoid close relationships, especially romantic relationships. It would be easy to say avoid relationships altogether, but the psychological wounds responsible for that fear creates a demand for a stage in whic...

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Often times these women opt not to get married, for they find that "true- romantic love is nowhere to be found in a society which inequalizes the sexes from birth. ... (Firestone 252) Romantic Love, despite all of its enthusiastic recommendations, has proven to disadvantage women whether one analyzes it from a psychological or philosophic...

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Psychoanalytic Symbols in "Kew Gardens" Kew Gardens is one the most erotic short stories I have ever read. In Freudian terms it is the description of, if you like, a night's love making. Virginia Woolf intentionally used nouns, verbs, small descriptions that are very typical Freudian symbols, and e...

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The concept of this essay is to review which theory best fits my fictional character, Norman Bates, after the readings of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein. For this reason, the fictional character Norman Bates, from a Hitchcock film will be used. Norman has many Freudian (Sigmund) aspect...

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Wuthering Heights Written by Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848 Outline 1. Cover page 2. Title page 3. Outline 4. Thesis - Religion vs. Supernatural Gothic vs. Victorian 5. Closing 6. Work Cited Emily Bronte was born in 1818 at Thorton in Yorkshire. (Huiswerk, Sc...

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How can the emotion Love truly be defined Everyone at some point in their lives have experienced it. Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal tenderness to contentment. It can be in relation to an emotion of strong appeal and personal fondness. T...

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Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward the parent of the same sex, and feelings of romantic love toward the parent of the opposite sex, if these conflicting feelings are not successfully resolved, they contribute to neuroses in later life. ...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. The images and symbols within a film are unending and unaccountable. Even the creators of films themselves cannot be aware of the unconscious impact of them all. ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". The main focus will...

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Henry James was one of the famous writers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was known as an innovative and independent novelist. One of James' novels, "Turn of the Screw" (1898), has caused a lot of controversy among many critics, and each of them has had a particular interpretation. James' creative writing built a close connection between his novel and his readers. The reactions of the readers toward the Gothic novella, "The Turn of the Screw" can be researched psychologically by analyzing how James developed his story using questionable incidents, an unreliabl...

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Morel feared that Miriam would exclude her and tried to break up their relationship, while Paul, himself sickened at heart by Miriam's romantic love and fear of physical warmth, turned away and became involved with Clara Dawes, a married woman, separated from her husband Baxter, and a supporter of Women's Right. ...

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