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Annotated Bibliography For Sylvia Plath's Poem Daddy
Annotated Bibliography for Sylvia Plath’s Poem Daddy
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1) De Nervaux, L. (2007). The Freudian Muse: Psychoanalysis and the problem of self-revelation in Sylvia Plath’s “daddy” and “medusa”. E-Rea : Revue Électronique D’Études Sur Le Monde Anglophone, (1). Retrieved from: http://erea.revues.org/186
Laure De Nervaux is working on her PhD dissertation at the University of Paris. Currently Ms. De Nervaux’s research is on poetry autobiographies and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. She is also a Fulbright scholar, this means she is a U.S. citizen whom has been selected to study abroad and received monetary grants to do so, and only 8,000 grants are awarded annually.
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The both of Sylvia Plath’s poems are reviewed and matched to the Freudianism theories of Electra and Freud Family Theories. Once, Sylvia Plath explained on the BBC news that the persona in her poem ‘Daddy,’ “...is a poem spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God.” (De Nervaux, 2007) The worshipping of her father and the loss or emotional detachment is what the Electra complex is based on. De Nervaux states that much like the persona in Daddy Plath’s father died when she was very young and was not available to her when she needed him to be. Plath continues with, “Her case is …show more content…
Specific examples of how the female persona is saying that she has an inappropriate sexual attraction to the cruel male figure without directly stating this fact are examined. This article provided new insight on how to investigate Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy. This article also support my thesis through the domination of the female persona in the poem she is also experiencing sexual desires of her father.
3) Gerisch, B. (1998). `This is not death, it is something safer': A psychodynamic approach to Sylvia Plath. Death Studies, 22(8), 735.
Professor Benigna Gerisch PhD is a Clinical psychology, psychoanalysis in the area of intervention, and Psychodynamic counseling teacher at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin Germany. She worked in her field for 21 years before becoming a teacher. Her current research is focused around suicide and the roles that genders have to play in
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