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Psychoanalysis And Romantic Idealization: The Dialectics Of Love, Barbara Schapiro
Psychoanalysis And Romantic Idealization: The Dialectics Of Love, Barbara Schapiro
Barbara A Schapiro
Presents a psychoanalysis of romantic idealization in Thomas Hardy's novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' Biography of Hardy; Effect of narcissistic conflicts and idealizations on Hardy's relationships with women in his life; Plot of the novel; Characters in the novel..
The Bonds Of Love And The Boundaries Of Self In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Barbara Schapiro
The Bonds Of Love And The Boundaries Of Self In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Barbara Schapiro
Barbara A Schapiro
Toni Morrison's Beloved penetrates, perhaps more deeply than any historical or psychological study could, the unconscious emotional and psychic consequences of slavery. The novel reveals how the condition of enslavement in the external world, particularly the denial of one's status as a human subject, has deep repercussions in the individual's internal world. These internal resonances are so profound that even if one is eventually freed from external bondage, the self will still be trapped in an inner world that prevents a genuine experience of freedom. As Sethe succinctly puts it, "Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed …