The contribution of Freuds structural model of the mind to the understanding of the personality of Ambrosio, the main character of the Gothic novel, The Monk

Purpose: Psychological disorder topics are being a common topic in a lot of discussions lately, moreover for the narcissism as the one of the most common disorder in psychology but with the least intention to taking care of. Thus, this study will focus on narcissism disorder in the main character named Rupert Digby in the drama script All in the Mi by Paul Howard Surridge. This analysis will apply psychoanalysis theory, especially in Narcissism Disorder as the most common mental disorder among society which has a lack of awareness from people nowadays. Methodology: The methodology that the writer has used is qualitative research which needs a deep analysis of the literary work that used by the writers of this study based on the theory that had been chosen. Results: This analysis aims at finding illustrations and proofs in the drama script All in The Mind’s main character, which can illustrate the narcissism disorder. In this study, we find that the main character Rupert Digby in the drama can be diagnosed as possessing the narcissism disorder. Implications: His behaviors such as his big ego, his superiority, and the feeling of exclusiveness among others, clarify that Rupert is a narcissist. Besides, this research also finds the trigger that makes Rupert turned into a narcissist.

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Insanity and Murder in Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s Dramatic Monologues

10.31235/osf.io/f7wqv ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Maha Qahtan Sulaiman

Keyword(s):

Moral Values ◽

Robert Browning ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Main Character ◽

True Self ◽

Dramatic Monologue ◽

Critical Situation ◽

Human Psyche ◽

Dramatic Monologues ◽

The Mind

The study aims at fathoming Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s intentions of choosing the dramatic monologue as a means of exploring human psyche. Significantly, the themes of insanity and murder are not ideal from an esthetic perspective, but for Browning and Lowell it provides the key to probe into human character and fundamental motives. This study examines Browning’ and Lowell’s dramatic monologues that address crime and the psyche of abnormal men. Browning’ and Lowell’s poetry in this regard unravels complicated human motivations and delineates morbid psychologies. Their monologues probe deep down into the mind-sets of their characters and dissect their souls to the readers. The main character of each of Browning’s dramatic monologues, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover; discloses his true self, mental health, and moral values through his monologue in a critical situation. Ironically, each monologue invites the reader to detect the disparity between what the character believes the story to be and the reality of the situation detected through the poem. In Lowell’s The Mills of the Kavanaughs, the monologue is delivered by the victim herself. Yet, the fact that the poem reflects Lowell’s individual experience and trauma indicates that the monologue is delivered by the poet-victimizer as well.

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Towards the Structural Model of the Mind

Freud ◽

10.1002/9780470713525.ch9 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 165-174

Author(s):

Margret Tonnesmann

Keyword(s):

Structural Model ◽

The Mind

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Encoding the Circumambient Psychological Moment: Clause Relations, Parallel Structures and Alliteration in Henry James’ “The Ambassadors”

Studies in Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.22158/sll.v3n4p301 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. p301

Author(s):

William Collins

Keyword(s):

Henry James ◽

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

Complex Syntax ◽

Parallel Structures ◽

The Mind ◽

Grammatical Structures

Henry James’ “The Ambassadors” might be termed an Impressionist Suspense Novel in that the action of the novel centers on the shifting impressions and groping for hidden meaning in the mind of its main character, Lambert Strether. The subtle changes in Strether’s struggle for understanding are registered in a series of intense encounters with Chadwick Newsome, and his lover, Madame Marie de Vionnet and are communicated to the reader in the complex syntax of James’ prose. This article will examine James’ use of four linguistic devices to render character portraits and signal shifting impressions: clause relations, parallel grammatical structures, lexical repetition and replacement, and serial alliterative modifiers.

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THE RUIN OF WHITE ADVENTURERS IN MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, A STUDY TO CONRAD’S TRILOGY: ALAMYER’S FOLLY, AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLAND, AND THE RESCUE

International Journal of Humanities, Philosophy and Language ◽

10.35631/ijhpl.26003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 27-41

Author(s):

Mugijatna Mugijatna ◽

Sri Kusumo Habsari ◽

Karunia Purna Kusciati

Keyword(s):

Joseph Conrad ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Other ◽

The Political ◽

Main Character ◽

White People ◽

Political Situation ◽

Malay Archipelago ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Mind

Many English literary works were written during the colonialism era present white people as superior people. But Joseph Conrad in his trilogy, Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Island, and The Rescue, present white people as defeated people. All the main characters in the novels that are white adventures are lost. Almayer, the main character in Almayer’s Folly, got bankrupt and eventually died sorrowfully; Willems, the main character in An Outcast of the Island, died at the hand of his beloved; and Lingard, the main character in The Rescue and the character in the other two novels as well, went home empty-handed. Why is the case like that? This research is a study of the trilogy in order to answer the question. Accordingly, the objective is to explain the cause of the white adventurers’ lost. This research is conducted using Ricoeur’s hermeneutics which consists of instantiation and appropriation as the methodology. The result is that, first, Almayer misunderstood the political situation and misunderstood the mind of her own daughter, Willems was in conflict with Almayer, and Lingard was unlucky; on the other hand, the leaders of the Malay people were crafty, able to make them fight to each other, and able to make a smart move. Second, the novels present objective point of views; from Malay point of views, white adventures in the Malay Archipelago caused miserable life to them but they were too strong to fight against them, while from the point of view of the white adventurers, the Malay couldn’t be trusted, cunning, and savage.

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Westernization and Colonization of the Mind in Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path”

OKARA Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra ◽

10.19105/ojbs.v15i2.5168 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 155-169

Author(s):

Maria Regina Anna Hadi Kusumawardani

Keyword(s):

Indigenous People ◽

Short Story ◽

Chinua Achebe ◽

Main Character ◽

British Colonialism ◽

Modern Life ◽

Literary Works ◽

Native Land ◽

British Occupation ◽

The Mind

British occupation in Nigeria has brought several impacts to the native land and also the indigenous people. Westernization and colonization of the mind are two inseparable effects of colonialism. These two issues are oftentimes depicted in literary works focusing on colonialism as their theme. The aim of this study is to analyze the issues of westernization and colonization of the mind raised in Chinua Achebe's "Dead Men's Path." The data were taken from quotes that prove the existence of these issues from a short story entitled “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe and analyzed them using Homi Bhabha’s theory of mimicry and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s theory of colonization of the mind. The results showed that westernization and colonization of the mind have affected Michael Obi, the main character in the story. Westernization influences Obi to adopt modern life and Western thoughts that show the process of mimicry, while colonization of the mind makes Obi downgrades Nigerian cultures. The issue of the management of land was also found in the story as a continuation of the previous problems. “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe reveals that British colonialism has changed the perspectives of Nigerian elites, as seen in Michael Obi’s story.

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Looking-Glass Space in “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson

Академічний журнал Слово і Час ◽

10.33608/0236-1477.2019.12.50-57 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 50-57

Author(s):

Tetiana Bovsunivska

Keyword(s):

Pattern Recognition ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Modern Human ◽

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

William Gibson ◽

Artistic Style ◽

The World ◽

The Mind ◽

Looking Glass

The paper deals with the poetics of the novel, based on the principles of literary cyberpunk. William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk as a genre, in the novel “Pattern Recognition” used the looking-glass image of Lewis Carroll’s book “Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There” as a leitmotif, reminiscently curved and shown only in the mind of the main character Case Pollard. The paper analyzes the semantics of the leitmotif of looking-glass and its functionality in the novel, as well as the conformity with the principles of transrealism and posthumanism. The state of the main character is not explained by some acts or periods of the day, but by hormonal disorder; the scientiﬁc awareness is intertwined with the metaphoric ﬁeld. Thus William Gibson’s artistic style acquires obvious features of cyberpunk. If Alice was just a weird kid who invented the world of fairy-tale creatures, Gibson’s character Case lives in a transreal world, full of various man-made modiﬁcations of space and humans. The modern Case-Alice does not invent anything, because the fairy-tale situation of her life is already embedded in the nature of civilizational development. Case as a heroine of the novel fully complies with the requirements of transrealism: she is not ‘normal’, she has a diagnosis and medical history. Тhe ‘F: F: F’ program (fragments) is created by an autistic Russian girl. The neurotic characters that Case meets are atypical, all in their own way. That is why the world around modern Alice, who is Case at the same time, is distorted by the abnormality, which is not hidden by the heroes. The cyberspace of modern human existence transforms all the sores of society into customary artiﬁcial symbols of degradation – posthumanistic codes.

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Flasher: Exploring the Mind of an Exhibitionist

K ta Kita ◽

10.9744/katakita.6.3.275-285 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 275-285

Author(s):

Patricia Amanda

Keyword(s):

Mental Disorder ◽

Internal Conflict ◽

Normal Person ◽

Creative Work ◽

Main Character ◽

Sexual Deviation ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

The Mind

Exhibitionism is a mental disorder characterized by compulsive disorder for exhibiting genital to an unsuspecting stranger. Through my creative work, I would like to raise awareness about exhibitionism for all readers, especially Indonesian people. I hope after reading my screenplay, readers will be able to understand more about exhibitionism. My screenplay explores the struggle of an exhibitionist to repress his desire to exhibit and his effort to change into a “normal” person sexually through Peter, my main character. The story goes around Peter who is an exhibitionist that is struggling with his desire to expose his genital to his victims while he does not really accept his sexual deviation which resulted internal conflict inside him. Later, he meets a girl that he really likes which makes him motivated to change. He tries his best to change before the girl realizes that there is something else about him.

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Insanity and Murder in Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s Dramatic Monologues

Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies ◽

10.24093/awejtls/vol5no1.14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 201-209

Author(s):

Maha Qahtan Sulaiman

Keyword(s):

Moral Values ◽

Robert Browning ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Main Character ◽

True Self ◽

Dramatic Monologue ◽

Critical Situation ◽

Human Psyche ◽

Dramatic Monologues ◽

The Mind

The study aims at fathoming Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s intentions of choosing the dramatic monologue as a means of exploring human psyche. Significantly, the themes of insanity and murder are not ideal from an esthetic perspective, but for Browning and Lowell it provides the key to probe into human character and fundamental motives. This study examines Browning’ and Lowell’s dramatic monologues that address crime and the psyche of abnormal men. Browning’ and Lowell’s poetry in this regard unravels complicated human motivations and delineates morbid psychologies. Their monologues probe deep down into the mind-sets of their characters and dissect their souls to the readers. The main character of each of Browning’s dramatic monologues, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover; discloses his true self, mental health, and moral values through his monologue in a critical situation. Ironically, each monologue invites the reader to detect the disparity between what the character believes the story to be and the reality of the situation detected through the poem. In Lowell’s The Mills of the Kavanaughs, the monologue is delivered by the victim herself. Yet, the fact that the poem reflects Lowell’s individual experience and trauma indicates that the monologue is delivered by the poet-victimizer as well

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Corporeïtat, conflicte i abjecció en Les mans de la deixebla d’Anna Moner

SCRIPTA Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna ◽

10.7203/scripta.0.16376 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 358

Author(s):

Irene Mira-Navarro

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

Gothic Novel ◽

Xviii Century ◽

Complex Characters

Resum: Aquest article té per objectiu analitzar la novel·la Les mans de la deixebla d’Anna Moner (2011) com una obra a cavall entre la narració gòtica i l’ambientació històrica en el segle xviii, d’una banda, i com a exponent de la representació de la corporeïtat, d’una altra. Estudiem els mecanismes a través dels quals l’autora construeix tres personatges complexos que giren al voltant del conflicte generat per la naturalesa abjecta (Kristeva 2006) del cos de la protagonista. A partir d’aquest punt, ens proposem explorar com les mans deformades esdevenen un símbol que connecten amb la tradició gòtica (Cornich i Sedgwick 2017) i que en aquesta novel·la funcionen com un agent que distorsiona la psicologia de la protagonista. Estudiarem el procés d’abjecció del personatge principal en relació al rebuig del propi cos i alhora a la instrumentalització d’aquest com a agent capaç de fer trontollar la concepció il·lustrada de la ciència com a mitjà de progrés.Paraules clau: corporeïtat, abjecció, psicologisme, novel·la gòtica, dissecció.Abstract: The main aim of this article is to analyse the novel Les mans de la deixebla by Anna Moner (2011) both as a novel through gothic narration and the historical environment of the XVIII century, and as the exponent of the corporeality’s representation. We study the mechanisms through which the author builds three complex characters that turn around the conflict generated by the abject nature of the main character’s body (Kristeva 2006). From this point on, we look to explore how the deformed hands become into a symbol that connects with the gothic tradition (Cornich and Sedgwick 2017). In this novel, the hands also play the role of a disruptive agent of the main character’s psychology. We will study the abjection process of the main character related to the rejection of the own body and, at the same time, to its instrumentalization as an agent capable of undermining the illustrated conception of science as a means of progress.Keywords: corporeality, abjection, psycologism, Gothic novel, dissection.

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