Psychoanalytical Theory & The Rocking Horse Winner Discussions
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short 2 discussion questions each with 150 to 200 words no plagiarism
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Psychoanalytical Theory
The Rocking Horse Winner is steeped in psychoanalytical theory. Explain what happened to Paul. Was he obsessed with riding the horse? Be thorough.
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Notes on Theory
Psychoanalytical Theories
What is Psychoanalysis?
- Sigmund Freud: (1856-1939) The father of psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of “reading” employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts.
- It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.
- It is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author’s psyche.
Methodology
- It is attempt to understand human behavior and motivation.
- There is a focus dreams and the Unconscious mind.
- We are motivated more so by the unconscious drive (Id) overt and covert desires OR manifest and latent desires.
- These are the basis of human actions.
What influenced literary criticism?
- Psychological literary criticism examines the internal mental states and desires of characters.
- “Oedipal Complex” A man’s unhealthy, but not uncommon interest in his mother’s sexuality.
- A psychoanalyst focuses on unstated motives and unconscious states of mind that the characters, authors, and readers have by paying attention to deeper symbols in the text.
Question Question Question
- What drove/motivated the author to write such a work?
- A critic may examine the psychology of a reader.
- What draws us in or repels us from certain literary themes?
- Psychoanalysts interpret literature the way a psychologist might look at a dream.
Jacques Lacan: (1901-1981)
- The most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud.
- The unconscious and the nature of language.
- “The Mirror Stage” is a concept in which infants recognize themselves in a mirror or other symbolic connection which induces apperception: the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed from outside themselves. This is how the ego is produced.
We all do it!
- One doesn’t have to be an expert to have interest in psychoanalytic theories.
- It is a tool many of us already use when we look at literature.
The Oedipus Complex
- “His [Oedipus] destiny moves us only because it might have been ours — because the Oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so.”
The Rocking Horse Winner
Respond to the quote:
“Paul was a good son and was brought up in a house-hold that understood the value and importance of money in a modern society.”
Questions for “A Rocking Horse Winner”
Q1. There was“sense of a shortage of money.” What is so important about social standing?
* Why is the house haunted by the phrase, “There must be more money!”?
Q2. D.H. Lawrence writes about Paul’s eyes in a peculiar manner? List the references to the eyes and explain what they mean?
Q3. His mother wants all of the 5,000 pounds. Is this Greed?
Q4. Why does Lawrence liken the sound of the rocking horse to madness?
Q5. END Paul ends up with brain fever and dies leaving his mother with basically millions of dollars.
Was he lucky? And at what cost? Why did Paul die? Can we blame his mother?
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