In using psychoanalysis, the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby" evolves from a tragic love story into one full of dysfunction. The romantic relationships in this novel provide some human behaviors that serve as rich topics for psychoanalytic criticism. ... After, looking into the history of Tom and Daisy's relationship there is a completely different story portrayed about her love for her husband. ... In psychoanalytic terms, a woman who falls in love with a man suffering from fear of intimacy probably fears intimacy herself. ... Falling so much in love with a man who is openly unfaithful...

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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. Victor finds himself rejecting his obvious mate, Elizabeth, in pursuit of his deep seeded desire for his mother as his only partner in love and sexual pleasure; his father and Elizabet...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Morel, is lonely; and she is lack of love. She puts all her affection to her sons, which the affection is mixed by mother love, spiritual love ...

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He is also one of the foremost pioneers of detective fiction and is generally considered part of the American Romantic Movement especially Dark Romanticism. ... "Eros", whose name comes from the Greek god of love, is the principle of life; it binds together and is most clearly seen in love. ... And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter.... She immediately obeys out of love for her husband. ... It is written right before the death of his wife Virginia with whom Poe was deeply in love and she was dying month after their marriage because of consumption. ...

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For the color green is associated with Scotties vertigo and, particularly, it's underlying cause: the dizzying fear of falling, and of falling deliriously in love. ... Yellow often indicates caution, but in this case it indicates a slow progression or mediocrity of Scottie's love for Midge. ...

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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 interpret...

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• Grade Level: High School