To browse Academia. This work explores the interplay of gender politics in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, interpreted through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis. It examines themes of masculinity, identity, and narcissism in Hawthorne's narratives, particularly focusing on how these themes inform and complicate notions of manhood.
Sigmund Freud the founder of modern psychiatry provides the opportunity to analyze the literary characters through the application of his psychoanalytic theory. In psychology, he puts forward the theory that the outcome of the inconsistency between id, ego and superego results in conflict. In order to form a healthy personality, one should balance his id, ego and superego. Repression happens as a result of this inconsistency.
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When one of these three parts of human psyche outweighs the other, one resorts to repress desires or past memories rather than articulating them. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main characters of Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter from a Freudian psychoanalytic position revealing how these characters lives and personalities have been affected by their id, ego and superego. A detailed psychoanalytic analysis of The Scarlet Letter provides knowledge about psychological states of the central characters.
These characters and their actions are intended to be analyzed in relation to the Freudian concept of id, ego and superego. The effects of id, ego and superego on their personalities are discussed during the analysis of the main characters of the novel by making references to their repressed childhood and past memories. Boag, S. Freud, patricide, and the birth of the hero. During the last two centuries, literature has been filled with newer innovative theories of analysis and criticism.
In fact, these theories enable us to examine through newer ways of interpretation and evaluation a work of art for tracing deeper hidden otherwise unthought-of meanings.
