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Hedda Gabler Psychoanalysis And The Space Of Play
2,188 words... describing this event Northam more or less veils from sight the eerily dreadful spectacle of the mother-to-be burning a 'child': 'Now I'm burning your child, Thea - you and your curly hair! Your child and Expert Lvborg's. Now I'm burning - now I'm burning your child. ' (HG, p. 345) The fearful ambiguity of that last sentence ('I am burning... ') reveals that the annihilating hatred which is dramatized in this scene is directed as much against the self as against the object. To refer to this ...
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Primal Scene H 2
795 wordsAccording to Kristeva's theory, in order to become a subject in the symbolic realm it is necessary to reject / abject that which gave us our existence - namely, the mother. Moreover, within patriarchal cultures women are reduced to the maternal function and therefore women, maternity and femininity are affected along with the maternal function. This misplaced abjection is one way to account for womens oppression and degradation within patriarchal cultures. For Kristeva, the process is helped alo...
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Wizard Of Oz Primal Scene
1,712 wordsFreud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that all I kept saying to everybody was? I want to go home. ' This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away from t...
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Hedda Gabler Judge Brack
4,345 wordsHEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OFHEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY HEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY by Nigel Hand The established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalized society. In this paper I present a psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading. Insofar as it does so, however, my...
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Seven Deadly Sins Hedda Gabler
10,446 wordsThe established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalized society. In this paper I present a psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading. Insofar as it does so, however, my interpretation is intended not to cancel the received view but to play against it. The first section of the paper is predominantly Freudian in approach. The second section ...
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