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Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet &

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet & “’Man and Wife is of One Flesh’ Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body”. Presented by : Seth Carpenter James Nicholas Rebecca Ott Jeffrey Ward. What is Psychoanalytic Criticism?.

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  1. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet & “’Man and Wife is of One Flesh’ Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body” Presented by: Seth Carpenter James Nicholas Rebecca Ott Jeffrey Ward

  2. What is Psychoanalytic Criticism? • Psychoanalytic criticism is the way we analyze what we read just we do dreams. • Dreams are like literary works…..they are inventions of the imagination. • Both dreams and literary works need interpreted before we can grasp the truth.

  3. Sigmund Freud

  4. Even if we haven’t read anything by Freud, “at one time or another most of us have either referred to ego, libido, compleses, unconscious desires and sexual repression”. (241) • He established the connection between dreams and literature • He discusses our • Ego and Super Ego • Ego: Rational Super-Ego: Moral Goodness • They’re the part of the mind that “polices” or represses what we should & shouldn’t do

  5. (Freud continued) • He believed the most commonly repressed feeling was to displace then replace the parent of our own sex to get the affections of the parent of the opposite sex. A Boy May fear that his father will castrate him • May wish his mother would start nursing him again (Example from pg.243)

  6. Freud believed that a writer summarizes his own feelings into his work (Freud continued) Is this true? Do we summarize our feelings and place them in the papers we write? • Freud also mentions “Manifest Dreams” or dream story which are used to figure out a person’s thought process

  7. Carl Gustav Jung

  8. Gustav broke Freud’s emphasis on sex and developed a theory that “a great work of literature is not a disguised expression of its author’s personal, repressed wishes; rather it is a manifestation of desires once held by the whole human race but now repressed because of the advent of civilization.” (244)

  9. Other poets and novelists used Freud’s model Conrad Aiken William Faulkner Henry James Robert Graves

  10. Wellek & Warren Included psychological criticism in their influential book, Theory of Literature where they state, “psychological criticism ….attempts to at least one of the following provide a psychological study of an individual writer; explore the nature of the creative process; generalize about “types and law present within works of literature”; or theorize about the psychological “effects of literature upon the readers” (81). (245)

  11. Jacques Lacan

  12. Lacan treated the unconscious as a language, a form or discourse. • He tried to improve Freud of psyche and gender • He argued that girls and boys learn language different. • Boys learn different than girls • . • They learn to desire substitutions for their mother

  13. “’Man and Wife is of One Flesh’ Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body”

  14. Written by Janet Alderman • Alderman focuses primarily on the sexual relationship between Gertrude and Hamlet. • Adelman toys with the idea of the power of sexuality over that of family dynamics and identity.

  15. Stresses importance on Hamlet’s sexual obsession with his mother, Gertrude. • Hamlet refers to his mother’s body as that of one “as an enclosed garden newly breached”.

  16. Gertrude’s Part in the play • Gertrude is the tool by which Hamlet’s father issues come to life • She is to blame because she didn’t mourn Hamlet's fathers dead which makes • Prince Hamlet feel as if King Hamlet was degraded

  17. Claudius & Gertrude • Claudius is to blame for Hamlet’s mother’s over sexuality • Gertrude’s body is said to be an unweeded garden. Things once grew there but now since Claudius came along, weeds over taken the garden. • Hamlet views his mother’s sexuality as a sign of betrayal to his father

  18. Claudius • Prince Hamlet feels he needs to kill the current king (Claudius) who killed the old king (King Hamlet) in order to become the new king. • Hamlet sees Claudius in the role of his father which makes it difficult to murder him since it could be seen as killing his father, King Hamlet

  19. Claudius continued • Even though Claudius wears the crown, Prince Hamlet doesn’t see him as king. • To Hamlet, being king isn’t about the title, but about the image behind that title. • Hamlet realizes he is not like his father. However, he’s becoming more like Claudius which is causing him to distant himself away from his father. • By separating Claudius away from the image of his father, Hamlet is separating himself.

  20. Ophelia • Hamlet doesn’t want to get near to Ophelia because he doesn’t want her to treat him like his mother treated his father • By not mourning/giving her love to another • Doesn’t want to be degraded like his father seemed to be by his lover/family

  21. To ask, or not to ask questions….. That Is The Question?! The End

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