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Psychoanalysisreading of SylviaPlath
By Julia Nigg
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Introduction
Psychoanalytical reading Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
Psychoanalysis interprets dreams and fantasies
Insight for resolution of problems
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Fundamentals of psychoanalysis
Behaviour determined by childhood events
Repressed emotions can result in mental or emotionaldisturbances
Example: depression
Bringing this material into the conscious mind, frees themind
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Personal reading
Psychoanalysis allows understanding Presence of Jungian theories
Release of repressed emotions through writing
Bringing material in the conscious mind
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Quote
Jung conceptualises depression as a damming up of energy
which, when released, may take on a more positive direction.
Energy is trapped because of a neurotic or psychological
problem but, if released, actually helps the overcoming of the
problem. (A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis)
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Mirror
Speaker appears to be in deep reflection
Writing of a broken mind
Bringing forth compartmentalised truths
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Mirror
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
(10-12)
Finding her inner self
Jealousy,
possibly of
others whohave found
themselves.
Reflects, provides clarity
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Further evidence
Jung also writes that clarification represents a
conversion of a vague feeling into a more precise idea or
image to which the person can relate. (A critical
dictionary of Jungian analysis)
Lake and mirror are an attempt at clarification
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Freud and Plath
Theory relies on Freuds Morning Melancholia Plath found it to be relatable
Took Freuds advice to use writing to self-heal
Most present in Daddy
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Daddy
Psychological in nature
Narcissistic love for her father coupled with hatred
towards him
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Daddy
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
(6-7)
Matter-of-fact. Pure anger and hatred
Slightly ambiguous
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Daddy
I was ten when they buried you.At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
(57-59)
Attempted suicide
Loss of father at an early age
Repetition conveys her
obsession with him
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Analysis
Poem is the epitome of the psychological analysis done
with Plaths poetry
Correlates with Freuds Mourning and Melancholia
Fathers death had largest impact on her life
Frees herself of through her poetry
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Works Cited
1. ." Digication E-Portfolio. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014..
2. Samuels, Andrew, Bani Shorter, and Fred Plaut. Depression. A Critical
Dictionary of Jungian Analysis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. 41.
Print.