There Was a Young Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Understanding the Juxtaposition of Love, Hate, And Patriarchal ConfinementIn Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy”

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Stacie M. Connell
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

In the opening of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” one glimpses a troubled young woman struggling to break free from patriarchal confinement. In a stark play on imagery, she equates her tomb of darkness to a “black shoe” where she has submissively “lived like a foot//Barely daring to breathe or Achoo” for her entire life (Plath 2-3,5). Plath opens the poem with an oppressive tone of confinement. Her tone is that of a victim unable to break free from the powerful pressing of her father. The daughter is acknowledging her life-long imprisonment through the image of conformity and obedience. Her testimony, “You do not do, you do not do/Anymore.” is an awakening, an ethereal understanding, she is no longer satisfied with being under her father’s foot (Plath 1-2). She mocks her submissiveness and fear by “Barely daring to breathe.” or express her autonomy outside of the domineering treatment designated by her father (Plath 5). “Daddy” juxtaposes the extremely childish and infantile dependency on the image of father versus the inherent desire to break free from the entrapment of masculine dominance. As Maher Mahdi points out in the article “From a Victim of the Feminine Mystique,” Plath is using “aspects of objectification” to create a breakdown of the typical family dynamic between father and daughter (98). The struggle is real, vigorous, and traumatic to the daughter speaking blatantly throughout the lines of “Daddy.” The battle rages as father and daughter fight metaphorically within the confines of the speaker’s mind. Plath offers the war-torn country as a backdrop to ease the reader into a sense of disquiet and upheaval. There is something obscenely immature in her attachment to the deceased father. She loves and hates him, desires her independence yet craves the security of her dependency, and she longs for him and yet strives to exorcise his demon from within her own soul. This emotional upheaval allows the reader to assess the speaker’s mental anguish and analyze “Daddy” on a more complex level. This study will explore 1) The juxtaposition of victim versus villain in the familial relationship of father and daughter; 2) The daughter’s search for autonomy and her unhealthy Oedipus complex; 3) Establishing identity beyond infantile attachment, or as Maher Mahdi points out, breaking free from immaturity requires a certain amount of viciousness in order for the daughter’s true liberation (Mahdi 100); 4) The exposure of the Jekyll and Hyde persona, which is noted by Isabelle Travis as the “blurred line” between recognizing the issues and finding one’s own part in the familial downfall (Travis 279).

Aurora Floyd

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
Mary Elizabeth Braddon ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Lady Audley's Secret

abstract ‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of ‘sensation novelists’. Aurora Floyd (1862–3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward’s introduction evaluates the novel’s leading place among ‘bigamy-novels’ and Braddon’s treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine.

The Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-56
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Sister Arts ◽  
Relationship Of

This study offers a biography of the friendship between Wordsworth and Beaumont, exploring Lady Beaumont’s role in generating an inter-familial relationship of heartfelt sympathy. It also offers detailed analysis of key poems and paintings that resulted from their artistic exchange: the first section offers a new reading of ‘Elegiac Stanzas’, placing the poem in the context of a series of letters that channel a discussion of hope and aspiration through Sir Joshua Reynolds’s theory of ‘Ideal Form’; the second focuses on the paintings Beaumont produced to accompany Wordsworth’s poetry, situating them within early nineteenth-century debates about the Sister Arts; the third examines Beaumont’s fascination with a passage from The Excursion, arguing that its composition was inflected by a painting in Beaumont’s collection, Peter Paul Rubens’s Autumn Landscape. The study concludes with an exploration of the principles that underpinned Beaumont’s campaign for a National Gallery.

Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic fern genus Trichoneuron informs on the infra-familial relationship of Dryopteridaceae

2015 ◽  
Vol 302 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Mei Liu ◽  
Xian-Chun Zhang ◽  
Mei-Ping Wang ◽  
Hui Shang ◽  
Shi-Liang Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

A WOLF SUBLIME: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ANIMAL

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chris Powici
Keyword(s):  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Defining Moments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Wolf Man ◽  
Human Family ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractSigmund Freud's analysis of the childhood dream of the Wolf Man, in The History of an Infantile Neurosis, has come to be seen as one of the defining moments of psychoanalysis. Freud interpreted this dream in terms of the Oedipus complex, concluding that the wolves which threatened to devour his patient were, in effect, father-substitutes, the archaic trace in the unconscious of the individual of the threat posed by the tyrannical father of the 'original' human family. In this article I argue that this conclusion conceals a problematic reading, on Freud's part, of the human/animal border, which is evidenced, in The History of an Infantile Neurosis, as well as elsewhere in his writings, as an anxiety as to the ontological status of the human subject and the 'nature' of civilisation, and as a repressed acknowledgement of the animal as sublime presence. However, in trying to negotiate similar questions today, and despite this marked ambivalence toward the 'animal', I also argue that Freud's insight into the mechanisms of repression remains a valuable way of exploring the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.

scholarly journals MOTIVASI MEMBELI PRODUK PEMUTIH WAJAH PADA REMAJA PEREMPUAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Maria Sriyani Langoday ◽  
Flora Grace Putrianti
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship of self-concept and motivation to buy whitening products among girls.Subjects in this study were young woman using cosmetic whitening facial at the University Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa Yogyakarta. The sampling technique was purposive sampling with the Product Moment Correlation analysis method.The results of the self-concept of variable data with the motivation to buy whitening products shows the value of (r) 0.725 with P = 0.000 (P <0.01). Based on the results of the analysis can be stated that the hypothesis is accepted. This means that self control variables contribute effectively to the motivation to buy whitening products by 52.5% and 47.5%. Influenced by other factors. Keywords: Motivation Buy Face Whitening Products, Self Concept.

scholarly journals Relationship of Phenetic Family of Apocynaceae Based on Morphological and Anatomical Characters

BIOEDUSCIENCE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Ahsanul Buduri Agustiar ◽  
Dewi Masyitoh ◽  
Irda Dwi Fibriana ◽  
Adesilvi Saisatul Khumairoh ◽  
Kurnia Alfi Rianti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Anatomical Characters ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Anatomical Evidence ◽  
Anatomical Trait ◽  
Plumeria Rubra

Background: Biodiversity in Indonesia is so diverse, including in Apocynaceae plants that is why it is important to study the kinship relationship to find out the kinship of Apocynaceae.  The purpose of this study was to determine phenetic kinship through morphological and anatomical evidence from four members of the Apocynaceae family. Methods: The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative and quantitative method.  The samples in this study were four species of Apocynaceae family members, including Adenium obesum, Plumeria rubra, Catharanthus roseus, and Allamanda cathartica.  The indicators used were the morphological traits of stems, leaves, and flowers and the anatomical trait of stomata. Results: The result showed that the phenetic kinship of the four species of the Apocynaceae family member namely Alamanda cathartica had a distant kinship relationship with the other species with a similarity value of 31%. Conclusions: Thus, the familial relationship between species in the Apocynaceae family in terms of morphological and anatomical characters that have a close relationship with Plumeria rubra and Adenium obesum with a similarity value of 44% and the most distant Alamanda cathartica with a similarity value of 31%.  

scholarly journals Areal linguistics and etymology

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Alenka Šivic-Dular
Keyword(s):  
Base Pair ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
The South ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
The West ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Word Onset ◽  
Areal Linguistics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Morphological Relationship

1. This article reconstructs six pairs of PSl equivalents for ‘alder' preserved in Slavic dialects in an appellative and/or onomastic function, whose elements can be distinguished from one another by grammatical gender (feminine or masculine) and declension type: *olьxa - *olьxъ, *olьša - *olьšь, *olьs'a - *olьs'ъ, *elьxa - *elьxъ, *elьša - *elьšъ, and *elьs'a - *elьs'ъ. The masculine forms are known only in East and South Slavic dialects. 2. The elements of the pair with the oldest phonetic form, which show the word-formational relationship of an ā-stem for the feminine form (*alisā) versus an o-stem for the masculine form (*aliso-s), can be dated at least to early PSl; other phonetic pairs developed later because they contain younger phonetic forms. 3. The base pair (*alisā ‘alder' - *aliso- ‘alder?') shows the same word-formational and morphological relationship as certain other expressions for trees derived from stems denoting colors (e. g., PSl *berzā - *berzo- ‘birch', *berstā - *bersto- ‘elm'). 4. The masculine and feminine elements of all pairs are phonetically equal, refl ecting the same principles of Slavic phonetic development (except for the oldest phonetic change at word onset manifested in Slavic *o- : *(j)e-, which cannot be unambiguously explained): cf. the pan-Slavic development of PIE *s > PSl. *x (*oalisā > *oalixā or *ealisā > *elixā), the pan-Slavic development of PIE *i > PSl. *ь (*oalixā > *olьxa, *ealisā > *elьxa), and the development of PSl *x > s' after progressive palatalization (*oalixā > *olьs'a, *ealisā > *elьs'a) in East and South Slavic dialects. In contrast, the -š- in the West Slavic forms *olьša, *jelьša is explained as a structural element rather than the West Slavic refl ex of the progressive palatalization of PSl. *x > *š' (*oalixā > *olьš'a, *ealisā > *elьš'a), as would be expected. The reason for this should be sought in the South Slavic phonetic forms of the type *olьša and *elьša, in which the appearance of -š- could imply morphological generalizations from various derivatives. 5. The PSl presence of phonetic variants with a sibilant *s' < PSl *x (i. e., *elьs'a and *elьs'ь) in South Slavic is indicated by rare lexical vestiges from the periphery of the vast linguistic area extending from eastern Prekmurje and Prlekija in Slovenia to Kajkavian territory (i. e., the area around Varaždin, Kotoriba, Gola to the east of Koprivnica, the area around Zagreb, and the southern edges of Slavonia in Croatia) as well as the Čakavian area (i. e., Brinje in the Lika region, and Jelsa on the island of Hvar in Croatia). 6. The phonetically innovative South Slavic forms *elьs'a, *elьs'ь alongside archaic *elьxa, *elьxъ can be compared to the phonetically innovative East Slavic forms *olьs'a, *olьs'ь alongside archaic *olьxa, *olьxъ, and the *s' can be defi ned as an East or/and South Slavic refl ex of *x after progressive palatalization, which extends well into the PSl period and, alongside PSl *vьxъ (East and South Slavic *vьs'ь and West Slavic *vьš'ь), is another lexeme with progressive palatalization of *x in the stem.

scholarly journals THE ABSENCE OF MOTHER: THE RELATIONSHIP OF FATHER DAUGHTER IN GOTHIC FICTIONS

Paramasastra ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hujuala Rika Ayu
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the bonding of father and daughter in Angela Carter’s “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and Intan Paramaditha’s “Pintu Merah” (transl. “The Red Door”). Carter and Paramaditha employ distinguished narrative structures to highlight the interaction among the characters. They utilizes third-person narrator and reproduces fairy tales. The absence of mother becomes an interesting pivot in both stories. In that situation, father is inevitably the daughter’s closest figure. In both stories, fathers are at the same time demanding and lame. While, daughters are those dependent, submissive yet tactical figures in facing their fathers as the sole counterparts in the story. Using the perspectives of Juliett Michelle and Nancy Chodorow on psychoanalysis feminism, this paper unveils the roles of father in daughter’s adolescent development. This study reveals that despite the dependencies of the daughters toward the familial relationship, they use their submissiveness as the weapons to break the patriarchal values represented by the fathers. 

Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-231
Author(s):  
Kimberly Lamm
Keyword(s):  
Post Partum ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Cultural Visibility

The subject of chapter 5 is the installation Post-Partum Document (1973–79). The chapter traces how Mary Kelly’s engagement with the visual appearance of language became a tool to deconstruct idealised myths of maternal femininity. By taking material desires – so often pathologised – as her aesthetic subject, Kelly challenged white ideals of maternal femininity as an identity women naturally assume. Crucial to this challenge was the psychoanalytic argument that through pregnancy and the first months of infant care, women re-experience their psychic lives before their negative entry into the Oedipus Complex. Kelly shows that mining the feminine pre-Oedipal for its affective and aesthetic plenitude opens up the feminist possibility that women can do more than serve as the ground for patriarchal losses; they can actually compose their own forms of fetishisation, a ‘language’ capable of writing women’s desires into cultural visibility. Kelly draws upon the visual language of the hieroglyph to represent this fetishisation. And with elegant hieroglyphic forms, Post-Partum Document touches upon the legacies of British colonial history and its manifestations as metropolitan racism in the London of the 1970s. As Kelly demonstrates, this structural racism was consolidated through the naturalisation of maternal femininity that Post-Partum Document puts into question.

scholarly journals RELASI CINTA DALAM TASAWUF

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-222
Author(s):  
Suwito Suwito
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Unity Of Opposites

Abstract: This article discusses the relationship of love in the Sufi perspective. Opositorum Coindencia theory is used to dissect this relationṢip , so that the devil Sufism is seen as a "sparring partner" in human spiritual quality improvement activities. This article shows that the Sufi tradition mainly in Waḥdah al-Wujūd, using imaginal thinking mindset see and understand the duality (bipolar), even though this diversity is unity of opposites. In the context of Sufi, masculinity—whichstated that the dominant sociological—declared substantially have "weaknesses." Because masculinity will not appear if there is no femininity. While in the context of the birth of the universe and the form of anything that is in fact born out of the urge of love that goes on this feminine category. In other words, masculinity will not be born if it is not driven by the feminine aspect. This is the "mystery of immense power" aspect of femininity in Sufi discourse. Thus, there is nothing more superiority between these two aspects. Relation is equal based on and effect of love. Abstrak: Artikel ini membahas tentang relasi cinta dalam perspektif Sufi. Teori Coindencia Opositorum dipakai untuk membedah relasi ini, sehingga dalam Sufisme setan dipandang sebagai “sparing partner” manusia dalam melakukan kegiatan peningkatan kualitas ruhani. Artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa tradisi sufi terutama dalam tasawuf waḥdat al-wujūd, dengan menggunakan pola pikir imaginal thinking melihat dan memahami dualitas (bipolar), bahkan keragaman sekalipun ini adalah unity of opposites. Dalam konteks sufi, maskulinitas—yang dinyatakan yang secara sosiologis dinyatakan dominan itu— secara substansial memiliki “kelemahan”. Karena maskulinitas tidak akan muncul jika tidak ada femininitas. Sementara dalam konteks lahirnya wujud semesta dan apapun yang ada justru lahir karena dorongan cinta yang masuk pada kategori feminin ini. Dengan kata lain, maskulinitas tidak akan lahir jika tidak didorong oleh aspek feminin. Inilah “misteri kekuatan dahsyat” aspek femininitas dalam wacana sufi. Dengan demikian, tidak ada yang lebih superioritas antara dua aspek ini.Relasinya adalah setara berdasar dan akibat dari cinta. Keywords: Waḥdah al-Wujūd, sufi, feminitas, maskulini¬tas, ḥubb.

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