Psychological Resistance In A. S. Byatt's Possession

Chapter three Psychological Resistance In more detail, A.S Byatt’s Possession is redolent of certain aspects of Freudian psychology, more specifically, repression. In this novel the reader becomes aware of the undertakings of the main character Roland Mitchell not only because of growing up in a society filled with a “ pretty blank day” but because of growing up in the hands of a drunken mother. A.S Byatt writes that “[H]e thought himself as a latecomer” and adds:

He (Roland) had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished, the whole ferment and brightness and journeying’s and youth of the 1960s, the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw a pretty blank day. Through

Anxiety acts as a signal to the ego that things are not going right. The ego sits at the center of some appealing powerful forces: reality and society as symbolized by the superego and biology as represented by the Id. When these make contradictory strains upon the ego, that means if one feel threatened or feel as if it were about to failure under the weight of it all, it serves as a signal to the ego that its existence, and with it the survival of the whole organism, is in danger. The ego which is ruled by the id, and deterred by reality, struggles to overcome its economic duty of bringing about harmony among the forces and influences working in and upon it. Accordingly they are driven to

Consequently, sublimation is the transformation of unwanted impulses into something that stands harmless. Convincingly, sublimation happens when people convert their opposed feelings into a creative form. For example, a person facing extreme anger might become a writer or a researcher as a means of liberating prevention. This can simply be a diverting release or may be a creative and valuable piece of work.

When one encounters with the conflict of painful thoughts, he/she creates psychic energy. This has to go somewhere. As a result, act of sublimation channels this energy away from destructive acts and diverts it into something that is socially acceptable and/or creatively effective. Yet, sublimation is the basic mechanisms that allows one to act out unacceptable impulses by converting these behaviors into a more acceptable