Essays Tagged: "Oedipal"

Critique of Bruno Bettelheim's and Karen Kolbenschlag's interpretation of "Cinderella"

esis of Freudian psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's work "'Cinderella': A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts," and an excerpt from Feminist writer Madonna Kolbenschlag's work "Kiss Sleeping B ... cause of their internalized thoughts and feelings. These feelings can stem from sibling jealousy to oedipal conflict, in which the child secretly desires to replace the parent of the same sex in order ...

(4 pages) 126 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Oedipus Wrecks", a Successful Appropriation of the Greek Tragedy?

uch as a novel instead of a play.The title "Oedipus Wrecks" is a pun, in that it refers to both the Oedipal aspect of the protagonist (Woody Alan's character) wrecking his life and to the name shared ...

(3 pages) 41 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Father Absence and the developement of the male self through Freud and Chodorow's theories.

om the mother and identify with the father. The boy's fear of the father in accordance with his pre-Oedipal love interest in the mother helps the boy to identify with masculinity and separate his self ... linity may not develop as would a boy would who had a present father. As the boy moves from the pre-Oedipal to the Oedipal stage, the boy now sees his father as more like himself. He uses the father a ...

(8 pages) 93 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O'Neill

Oresteia, the myth that actually structures the play's action is overwhelmingly that of Oedipus.The Oedipal drama, and Freud's elaboration of it, determines the course of the trilogy. Lavinia, for exa ... carnation as Christine and Ezra.The various substitutions among the characters as structured by the Oedipal drama make them each other's doubles. The double is also the rival- the player who believes ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Analysis of the applicability of the Oedipus complex in understanding sexual difference

ing for endless variations of sexual identity within society (Freud 1977, pg 342). It is during the Oedipal phase of development that the child must, for the first time, repress aspects of its bisexua ... temporaneous with the phallic phase of infantile sexual development, but has its origins in the pre-Oedipal phase dominated by the child's relationship with the mother and the wish to complete the pre ...

(11 pages) 71 0 2.3 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Miller's Salesmen More Alive Than Ever

t leads him to burn bridges at random. Since the play's Chicago run last fall, Dennehy has added an Oedipal color: As much as he loves his charismatic but aimless son Biff, their confrontations leave ...

(1 pages) 889 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers