Analysis of the Story of Young Goodman Brown in the Light of Psychoanalysis Theory

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I am going to write my reflection on the story of Young Goodman Brown in the light of psychoanalysis theory. I will start with the theory, then applied it on the story. Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychologist, introduced us to a new theory in the world of criticism; he invented the concept of Psychoanalytic Criticism, in which he divided the mind into conscious and unconscious. Returning to the history of the theory and its development, we can say that Sigmund Freud, believed that the unconscious is the storehouse, where all the hidden desires, fears, and ambition are stored and suppressed. He declared that our mind consists of both conscious (ID), and the unconscious (ego). Then he edited it to suggest that there is no thought completely conscious or unconscious. Thus, we have a third part called superego helps us to make a moral judgment. Freud goes on analyzing the psychological mind of a child, into becoming a man or a woman through three stages: Oral, anal and phallic in which he discover the pleasure and other things. Then the child will grow and struggle will grow as well between the ID and Ego which Freud named the neurosis. Many years later, Carl Junk emerged in this arena to agree with his teacher, Freud, that the unconscious exists, he rejected the contents of the unconscious and formulated a new approach. According to him, human psych consists of three parts: the conscious, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. Moving to the assumption of the theory, Freud suggested that all artists are neurotic. He claimed that the author chief motivation is to gratify some secret desire, or a forbidden wish. Therefore, the outward manifestation of this suppressed wish is the literary work itself. In other words, the literary text of an author is his dreams or fantasy's. Therefore, we can interpret the hidden meanings in symbols through
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