The Scarlet Letter,written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne,is famous for its profound theme and writing techniques of symbolism and metaphor.Scholars studied this work from different perspectives like ...The Scarlet Letter,written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne,is famous for its profound theme and writing techniques of symbolism and metaphor.Scholars studied this work from different perspectives like symbolism,feminism and gothic effect.By analyzing the different characters of this novel,this paper aims at revealing the ugly side of human nature from the perspective of the Freudian Psychoanalytic Interpretation.展开更多
By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling a...By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling abandoned,and therefore result in the core issues of fear of abandonment and fear of intimacy.Esther’s whole pattern of psychological behavior,mainly manifested in her relationship with others,is grounded in her unconscious conviction that emotional ties to another human being will lead to one’s being emotionally abandoned.展开更多
文摘The Scarlet Letter,written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne,is famous for its profound theme and writing techniques of symbolism and metaphor.Scholars studied this work from different perspectives like symbolism,feminism and gothic effect.By analyzing the different characters of this novel,this paper aims at revealing the ugly side of human nature from the perspective of the Freudian Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
文摘By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling abandoned,and therefore result in the core issues of fear of abandonment and fear of intimacy.Esther’s whole pattern of psychological behavior,mainly manifested in her relationship with others,is grounded in her unconscious conviction that emotional ties to another human being will lead to one’s being emotionally abandoned.
