Sometimes we need to wait until the right moment or until we actually have access to the things that will fulfill our needs. In fact, the sexuality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula proves Sigmund Freud’s theory that all human behavior is motivated by either the sex drive, or some sexual impulse. To properly analyze this book, a certain “approach” needs to be applied to the book. The most interesting of these “lenses” is the Psychological Approach. When analyzing a book through the psychological lens, you must juxtapose the book itself with Sigmund Freud’s theory of the Id, the Ego, and the Super-ego.
The so-called metaphoric content is none other than a reflection of the author's inner psyche in which the neurotic author uses literature as a form of sublimation (Freud, 150). As Dr. Mary Klages writes in her essay Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud, "…psychoanalysis asks us to pay a lot of attention to LANGUAGE, in puns, slips of the tongue…etc. This suggests how psychoanalysis is directly related to literary criticism since both kinds of analysis focus on close readings of language" (2). Hence, literature is none other than a reflection of the author's dreams (Fish, 2). And dreams, according to Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams, are merely a reflection of a person's sub consciousness (9-12).
They both studied different ideas, and preached different views about how our mind functioned. While Maslow focused on the humanistic aspect of our personality, Jung focused on the psychoanalytic aspect. However, they were both inspired by two great people. Carl Jung was deeply influenced by Sigmund Freud who happens to be the father of psychoanalysis. Though he dismissed Freudian theory that stated that human personality was defined by their sexual drive and desires, he established that we have 2 states of unconscious.
Detroit: Gale, 1998. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Image Omitted: ] Full Text: [In the following essay, Millhauser considers Frankenstein's monster in relation to the tradition of the “noble savage” in literature.] The estimate of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein familiar to us from literary handbooks and popular impression emphasizes its macabre and pseudo-scientific sensationalism: properly enough, so far as either its primary conception or realized qualities are concerned. But it has the effect of obscuring from notice certain secondary aspects of the work which did, after all, figure in its history and weigh with its contemporary audience, and which must, therefore, be taken into consideration before either the book or the young mind that composed it has been properly assayed.
The ego is the personality that is used for dealing with reality. According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and makes sure that the impulses of the id can be shown in a manner that is acceptable in the real world. The ego functions in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind. This theory's main ideas are that the ego works based on the reality principle. This strives to satisfy the id's wants in socially acceptable ways.
A REVIEW OF THE ‘FREUDIAN UNCONSCIOUS AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE’ BY VESA TALVITIE, Karnac Books Ltd, London “... [T]he psychological unconscious documented by latter-day scientific psychology is quite different from what Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic colleagues had in mind in fin de siècle Vienna. Their unconscious was hot and wet; it seethed with lust and anger; it was hallucinatory, primitive, and irrational. The unconscious of contemporary psychology is kinder and gentler than that and more reality bound and rational, even if it is entirely cold and dry.” Kihlstrom, Barnhardt and Tataryn (1992, p789) quoted in Talvitie (2009, p 2) It was this “hot and wet” perception of Freud’s notion of the unconscious that first attracted me to psychoanalysis. However, the question regarding whether, when neuroscientists speak of unconscious processing, they are speaking in the same terms as psychoanalysts or not, has become of increasing interest to me. It was, therefore, my sense that Talvitie’s work served as something of a bridge between the two paradigms that drew me to it.
Id- The Id is the only element of personality that is present from birth. The Id is the personality component that is made up of the unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy our basic urges, needs, and wants. According to Freud, the id is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality. The id operates on what is called the pleasure principle, which demands that we have immediate gratification of our wants, needs, and desires. If these needs are not satisfied right away, then the result is a state of tension and anxiety.
We can live vicariously through romantic fictions, much as we can through daydreams. Terrifying novels and nightmares affect us in much the same way, plunging us into an atmosphere that continues to cling, even after the last chapter has been read — or the alarm clock has sounded. The notion that dreams allow such psychic explorations, of course, like the analogy between literary works and dreams, owes a great deal to the thinking of Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychoanalyst who in 1900 published a seminal essay, The Interpretation of Dreams. But is the reader who feels that Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is dreamlike — who feels that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is nightmarish — necessarily a Freudian literary critic? To some extent the answer has to be yes.
In Mel Brook’s classic film Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder’s creature struggles to overcome his revolting appearance in order to prove himself capable of human emotions and reasoning. While Brooks’s work is only a loose adaptation of the classic novel by Mary Shelley, it is worth noting that this specific theme – that moral character is unfairly judged by appearance – transcended both versions. Perhaps Brooks, like the audience that first read Frankenstein, realized that judgment by appearance is one of the most developed themes of the original novel, and one that continues to be the most poignant. Throughout the novel of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley argues that society unfairly judges by appearance, casting out anything that is socially
The question as to who is bigger and who can do or not do this or that, and to whom-these questions fill the adult’s inner life far beyond the necessities and the desirability’s which he understands and for which he plans-Erik Erikson(1950). Defense of Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development Like Sigmund Freud, Erikson believed that every individual is born with basic instincts and that development occurs in stages. These stages are influenced through maturation and growth both physically and psychologically. Erikson believed in the Id, ego and superego. He differed with Freud that social and cultural influences have an important role in molding human development, rather than sexual urges and pleasure He believed that humans are rational and their feelings, thoughts and actions are mostly controlled by the ego.