Carson McCullers uses Frankie Adams as a projection of her own mind through her work The Member of the Wedding. McCullers uses sublimation to project her mind onto the character of Frankie. In the scene where Frankie imagines that she sees her brother and his wife in a dark alley, McCullers is projecting her own anxieties onto Frankie, who then projects them onto the two colored boys standing in the alley. Frankie uses displacement to transfer her fears and anxieties onto the two boys. The different characters that stem from Frankie’s unconscious mind represent the id, ego, and superego in this scene. In The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers represents her psychological anxieties through sublimation onto Frankie Adams. Frankie then uses this as displacement onto the other characters. Sublimation is “the transformation of unwanted impulses into something less harmful” (Changingminds.org). McCullers uses sublimation to express her subconscious through the character of …show more content…
The mirror stage allows the child to develop a sense of self of self as a whole (Tyson 27). “The infant now develops during this stage a sense of itself as a whole rather than a formless and fragmented mass,” which is what Frankie lacked in the early stages of her life (Tyson 27). Frankie never developed a sense of self because the mirror stage strengthens the attachment between a mother and infant. The lack of her self-understanding as a whole leads up to Frankie’s longing for a mother figure. Following the mirror stage is the symbolic stage, in which the father enters the relationship. This lack of a mirror stage has lead to Frankie’s misunderstanding of the stages and issues with her mental growth. The symbolic stage either never occurred for Frankie because of her lack of a mother and thus confusion about a father, or it occurred too early for Frankie and has caused her trouble identifying who she
No matter what actions or words a mother chooses, to a child his or her mother is on the highest pedestal. A mother is very important to a child because of the nourishing and love the child receives from his or her mother but not every child experiences the mother’s love or even having a mother. Bragg’s mother was something out of the ordinary because of all that she did for her children growing up, but no one is perfect in this world. Bragg’s mother’s flaw was always taking back her drunken husband and thinking that he could have changed since the last time he...
In the psychodynamic viewpoint the non acceptance of his father was always a traumatic thing for him to deal with. His father never told him that he loved him and was never proud of him until his sign...
Through this unique story telling technique, the reader is able to watch Frank grow and evolve. Between the ages of four, eleven and fourteen changes in his writing can be easily identified. It is evident that the written text, McCourt’s thoughts, and the resultant relationship with the reader evolve and become more complex during this part of his life. When describing his experiences at the age of four, McCourt's writing style is very much like a story told from a child’s perspective. He uses simple dialogue and a ‘tell it like it is’ approach: “We’re on the seesaw.
The overlook of society creates this division between men and women, suppressing the latter. For generations women have been oppressed and against their counterparts. This barrier deems women less superior and unequal to men, making them appear weak. Since men are seen more strong, society thinks that they should be the more dominant ones and over shadow females. Kate Atkinson and Thomas Raddall use similar elements to display this idea. In the short stories The War on Women and The Wedding Gift, Thomas Raddall and Kate Atkinson show the oppression of the women and their attempts to achieve freedom. The authors both use similar elements of location and characters.
It is not always easy to steer a child towards the right path, sometimes they do as they please, and sometimes it is the parents that make a mistake. No sons or daughters truly understand their parents’ choices until they have reached maturity. For example, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein can be interpreted as a metaphor of a kid defying his parents’ wishes and going into a teenage crisis asserting his rights over them. If the novel is deconstructed we can identify the different stages of the creature’s life mirroring the stages towards adulthood; First there is the first actions of the child and how the parent reacts to it, in second there is the learning phase where he acquires awareness of his surroundings and consequences of his actions and third is the child’s revolt against the authority figure as he attains maturity and finally the reconciliation between father and son as the wrong is being atoned for.
... growth where a child is forced to start looking for solutions for everything that is wrong instead of simply being a child. This analysis prove that children have their own way of seeing things and interpreting them. Their defense mechanisms allow them to live through hard and difficult times by creating jokes and games out of the real situation. This enables then to escape the difficulties of the real world.
One of the main themes of this novel is the discomfort of adolescence. Frankie occasionally fantasizes herself in the world of adult people - joining the army, going to Hollywood to be a movie star- ; noises from the outside, which children make while playing irritates Frankie. She refers to those children “‘just a lot of ugly silly children.’” Her father once tells her that summer that she was too old to sleep with him and this makes her insecure and anxious about maturing. While she is so eager to be a grown up, she still has all those childish fears. The intimacy she used to share with her father is now gone, and since her mother has died when she was born, she does not have any woman, a motherlike figure other than the housemaid, Berenice.
Individuals subject to emotional abuse, specifically children who have experienced it often in the home, develop a strong lack of sense of self-worth. At the beginning of The Secret Life of Bees, Lily believes she has no other future than beauty school until a teacher reveals that she can go farther and do more. Thinking before that she wasn’t, or couldn’t be, destined for greatness, “It took me a month to get over the shock of having life possibilities” (Kidd 16). Despite getting excellent grades, that overwhelming sense of self-doubt after being belittled by her father throughout her life overtook it all. Persistent denouncement from the primary caregiver in a child’s life and “distortions in self-esteem.often persist into adulthood” (Mankiller), resulting in the children carrying these psychological issues with them through life.
It was a beautiful Saturday morning on January 6. The winter air was crisp and the view was amazing. The soft salty scent from the ocean filled the air. Off the balcony on the second story of the Long Beach Yacht Club I could see the light swells of the Pacific Ocean. The small crashing of waves added to the peaceful instrumental background sounds as the ceremony was about to begin. January 6, my wedding date, was a day that changed the rest of my life.
The concept of odor is also explained as a hint for a sin: "Sin has a putrid smell, virtue exhales sweet odours." (Origen 269). It is possible to consider the concept of 'odor' even in broader terms, when it integrates the ideas of "the spiritual sense of Scripture." (Origen 270). Dominance of the bride's words is relevant, because if we hear what she says, we can understand what she hears. This shows a spiritual interconnectedness of the plot in the Song of Songs between Christianity and mysticism. The Bride and the Bridegroom are two basic pillars in this book. Origen talks about a 'spiritual embrace', which wraps the readers with its divine nature. Desires of the Bride and Bridegroom are not persistent. They convey their ideas slowly and tenderly with love and worship: "Let him kiss me" rather than "O that He would kiss!" Thus, the readers can sense a power of the spiritual love to God.
Shrunken by polio and destroyed by the death of a role model, Frank struggles to find inspiration. His new found vocation abandons him after the death of Sullivan and he struggles immensely to resume, “Poetry had deserted him. There was no poetry here.” Despite originally feeling, “a hunger to know why he was alive,” he no longer experiences this when brought to the Golden Age, he essentially feels encircled by his experiences. This dark veil of despair is lifted when he discovers a root of innovation in a girl also debilitated by polio, Elsa.
This insufficiency caused his self-esteem and self-image to become distorted because when narcissistic injuries occurred there was no availability of supplies, thus causing the self-image to become molded to what others thought of him. Another aspect of self-psychology discusses the developmental need to have twinship, mirroring and idealizing. However, these experiences which are vital for the self to develop were limited at best by Jackie’s parents. It is clear that mirroring, in which the caregiver validates the child, was not available to Jackie when he was younger. This can be seen as his father being unsupportive and Jackie’s mother not acknowledging and assisting him process his feelings, but instead giving him comfort food to preoccupy him.
The Zulu people are a tribe in South Africa that form part of the greater Nguni speaking people. The brunt of their number is situated in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province of South Africa on its Eastern Coast.
Almost every culture around the world have the idea of bringing together households in marriage. In the United States, this a coupling of two people who will start a life on their own. In India, a marriage is more than two people falling and love and getting married. Family, religion and casts play a role for the future bride and groom. The Indian culture’s weddings have different traditions when it comes to proposals, ring traditions and ceremonies not only for the couple but for the families as well.