Charlie’s fantasies, sequences of masturbation, and subsequent interactions with Donald encapsulate his artistic process, as they draw a connection between his “solipsistic” writing — which only he enjoys — and physically pleasing himself. Charlie alternates between two mindsets: one of self loathing, characterized by counterproductive anxiety attacks, and one of orgstic fantasy, in which creativity floods from his mind. Donald — essentially a reflection of Kaufman’s* less contemptuous side and a symbol of reality — often appears during the latter, emphasizing the distinction between actuality and fantasy. For instance, Donald interrupts Charlie’s erotic dream about a waitress he met earlier, wrenching Charlie from this chimera. Jonze accentuates Charlie’s emotions by quickly changing a euphoric, high-key lighting into a dingy, low-key setup. Comparatively, a similar sequence shows the ecstatic screenwriter experience an outpour of ideas, almost screaming into his recorder: “We open on Charlie Kaufman.” After realizing that he placed himself into a piece which does not involve him, he cycles into a panic, where he remarks, “I’ve written myself into my screenplay … [i]t’s self indulgent [and] narcissistic.” Jonze hints at Charlie’s previous masturbation sequence, as they both shifts from high-key to low-key lighting. …show more content…
Additionally, Kaufman’s* inclusion of Ouroboros underlines this key concept of self-pleasure. As Ouroboros eats its own tail, it enjoys the sensation of feeding; what it fails to recognize, however, is the fatal nature of its actions. Charlie remarks, “I’m Ouroboros,” highlighting how his screenwriting and masturbation are both detrimental, and emphasizing their
From the beginning, Robert Cohn’s name defines himself－he is essentially a conehead in a society where concealing insecurities and projecting masculinity is paramount. Although he tries in vain to act stereotypically male, Cohn’s submissive attitude and romantic beliefs ultimately do little to cover up the pitiful truth; he is nothing more than a degenerate shadow of masculinity, doomed for isolation by society. In the incriminating eyes of people around him, Cohn is a picture-perfect representation of a failure as a man. Through Cohn, Hemingway delineates not only the complications of attaining virility, but also the reveal of another “lost” generation within the Lost Generation: those living without masculinity and the consequences they thus face.
Throughout the years, and throughout various forms of media, some of the greatest creative minds have been the victims of the most unfortunate circumstances. For many, their major problem is that of addiction, and one could say that it affects their work, for better or worse. For example, a writer’s prose usually is affected at least partly by the author’s inner dialogue, and thus, the author’s problems get mixed in with their writings. Therefore, the author’s addictions become a part of the work itself.
Fantasies, which are defined as fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, or suppositions are things he often does while on his mission to victory. During the late afternoon hours, he would frequently climb into his foxhole and read his received letters from a girl named, Martha, that he absolutely adores. She sent him letters that he guarded with his dear life and kept secretly hidden from the other men. They weren’t by any means “love” letters, but he often imagined they were just for the spite of things. Jimmy read those letters every day and every night, paying no attention to what was going on around him, just focusing on Martha. Although, letters were the main source of his absence from the world around him, he would often imagine romantically, trips into the white mountains of New Hampshire while holding the letters in his hand. He would sometimes taste the flaps, knowing her tongue had been there (Obrein, “Carried” 272). Jimmy began to pass his days more quickly by trying to keep up his hope, while thinking about being with Martha, somewhere in a beautiful place, alone, with nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, Jimmy received a pebble in one of the letters from Martha, which she picked up off the Jersey Shoreline just for Jimmy as a good luck charm. He carried the pebble in his mouth most of the time. While on other occasions, he would often slip away into daydreams, just pretending, walking barefoot along, the shoreline, with Martha, carrying nothing (O’brien, “Carried” 275). He fantasized daily about Martha; He wondered who she was with, and what she was doing. Although, Jimmy carried Martha’s pebble with him continuously, he began to carry much more than just a pebble in his mouth.
Focusing on the episodes at hand, an emphasis will be placed on the dialogue for the given characters. What key words or lines stand out or allude to a particular character’s sex life? Examination of the character’s body language will be conducted to see if this reveals anything about their sexual arousal. Do they present actions that allude to them feeling sexual? Following up on that, examining the insight will be gained from analyzing the tone of scenes where sex is being discussed or alluded to. What are the characters connotatively trying to convey? What is being emphasized and what is not being emphasized? Are the four main characters perceived as having the power pertaining to sex? Lastly, the paper will analyze how the characters react
...e, Joseph Allen. Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and theShaping of Modernism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
Through the characters' dialogue, Hemingway explores the emptiness generated by pleasure-seeking actions. Throughout the beginning of the story, Hemingway describes the trivial topics that the two characters discuss. The debate about the life-changing issue of the woman's ...
Although there are numerous approaches employed in understanding literature, the psychoanalytic interpretation most significantly attempts to utilize the symbolic mysteries of a work. In exclusive contrast to the formal approach, which focuses entirely on the wording, the fascinating aspect of the psychoanalytic investigation is that it searches for a purpose beyond that which is strictly in the text. By insinuating the existence of innate and hidden motives, it allows for a broad range of abstract and creative possibilities. When applied to Perrault's, "Little Red Riding Hood," it appropriately suggests evidence toward underlying sexual motivations and tensions. Additionally, this analysis unfolds a constant interplay between forces of the human psyche.
Incredibly, Nathaniel Hawthorne, wrote about concepts that Freud clinically proved later on. Much like Freud, Hawthorne analyzes in his tale Young Goodman Brown the same premises for which Freud is the epitome. Thus, one encounters the issues of the opposite effect that social restraint has on society, despite its purpose, as well as the unconsciousness versus consciousness in this text, together with their crucial parts - the id, superego and ego, and the issues of the libido.
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.” (Dahl et al., 2013). Roald Dahl is well known for someone who loves to use humour in his story books to make children and even grownups laugh until their tummies heart. In the following essay there is going to be looked at how Dahl uses humour in his books Boy and Georges Marvellous Medicine to manipulate the reader’s perception of events that occur.
The influence of Freud's theory of the dynamics of human personality extends far beyond the discipline of behavioral science, reaching into areas such as humanities, philosophy, and literature. Freud believed that a work of literature is the external expression of the author's unconscious mind. Therefore, we must treat the work of literature as a dream, then reveal hidden motivations and repressed desires by applying psychoanalytic techniques. In the story "Young Goodman Brown," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I will explore the use of symbols and repressed images by the author that are conveyed throughout the story.
Hemingway uses his personal experiences to portray the true meaning of this book. Ernest Hemingway lived an eccentric life full of wars and marriages and...
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:
Summarizing Freud's thoughts, M. H. Abrams writes in A Glossary of Literary Terms: "The forbidden, mainly sexual wishes come into conflict with the "censor"...but are permitted to achieve a fantasied satisfaction in distorted forms that serve to disguise their real motives and objects from the conscious mind." One crucial aspect of this process is 'sublimation'; Mr Abrams describes it as the power to "shift the instinctual drives from their original sexual goals to nonsexual "higher" goals." It would not be inappropriate to interpret Browning's dramatic monologue The Last Ride Together through this psycho-analytic lens. This would generate a reading whereby the 'ride' in the poem becomes at once metaphorical of, and substitutive for, the consummation of libidinal d...
“We had a lovely time that summer. When I could go out we rode in a carriage in the park. I remember the carriage, the horse going slowly, and up ahead the back of the driver with his varnished high hat, and Catherine Barkley sitting beside me. If we let our hands touch, just the side of my hand touching hers, we were excited.” (Hemingway 112)
Weiss, Margot Danielle. Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Durham: Duke UP, 2011. Print.