My Oedipus Complex in the Perspective of Psychoanalysis: a Study of Sigmund Freud’s Theory
Muhammad Sidik
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My Oedipus Complex in The Perspective Of Psychoanalysis:
A Study of Sigmund Freud’s Theory
A literary work is just like a dream in which we need to interpret. It is the representation of one’s reality experience. It is full of fiction, figurative, and mystery, but sometimes filled by the hidden meaning. In order to reveal the meaning that found in it, we should interpret and analyze before it could be understood. And one of the means to analyze it is by using the psychoanalysis perspective. Psychoanalysis is the mean to analyze the psyche condition of characters as well as author of the story itself. It is firstly proposed by an Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud that writes in his essay, “Creative Writers and Daydreaming”:
Creative writers also does the same as the children at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invest with large amounts of emotions—while separating it sharply from reality.
Thus, literary work is an imaginative work which comes from the writer’s imagination (emotions and desires) and it therefore drawn indirectly from the unconscious level of the writer’s mentality (the Id) to be performed in/as the individual conscious level (the Ego) as well as the collective conscious level (the Super Ego) of the characters. Agree by Freud statement, Rene and Wellek also defined psychoanalysis as the mean of the psychological study of writer, as type and as individual, or the study of creative process, the study of psychological types and laws present within works of creature, or finally, the effects of literature upon its reader. (Wellek, Rene and Austin Warren, 1949:81)
From those kind relationships of literature and psychology, I’ll take a study in the first relationship. It is because the literary work will never be freed from the psychology of the writers. As the writers are like the daydreamer who creates the dream as the result of their activity, so do the
1209503118
Sastra B
My Oedipus Complex in The Perspective Of Psychoanalysis:
A Study of Sigmund Freud’s Theory
A literary work is just like a dream in which we need to interpret. It is the representation of one’s reality experience. It is full of fiction, figurative, and mystery, but sometimes filled by the hidden meaning. In order to reveal the meaning that found in it, we should interpret and analyze before it could be understood. And one of the means to analyze it is by using the psychoanalysis perspective. Psychoanalysis is the mean to analyze the psyche condition of characters as well as author of the story itself. It is firstly proposed by an Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud that writes in his essay, “Creative Writers and Daydreaming”:
Creative writers also does the same as the children at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invest with large amounts of emotions—while separating it sharply from reality.
Thus, literary work is an imaginative work which comes from the writer’s imagination (emotions and desires) and it therefore drawn indirectly from the unconscious level of the writer’s mentality (the Id) to be performed in/as the individual conscious level (the Ego) as well as the collective conscious level (the Super Ego) of the characters. Agree by Freud statement, Rene and Wellek also defined psychoanalysis as the mean of the psychological study of writer, as type and as individual, or the study of creative process, the study of psychological types and laws present within works of creature, or finally, the effects of literature upon its reader. (Wellek, Rene and Austin Warren, 1949:81)
From those kind relationships of literature and psychology, I’ll take a study in the first relationship. It is because the literary work will never be freed from the psychology of the writers. As the writers are like the daydreamer who creates the dream as the result of their activity, so do the
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