Browsing by Subject "Libido"
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Failure of the Superego in Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train(Department of English, 2021) Magar, SaraswotiThis research paper deals with failure of moral structures in Paula Hawkins’s 2015 novel,The Girl on the Train. The novelist depicts modern British society in the text to make her claims regarding the fall of standard moral values in their society. The female characters live a very difficult life in which they face problems. This research paper studies the events and the behaviour of the characters who are guided by the repressed libidinal contents in the id. This study has taken Freudian model of psychoanalysis to study the novel. Freud has divided human personality into three elements Id, Ego and Superego. Ego plays a role of mediator to create balance between these two id primitive drives and superego moral and social drives. This study draws on morality of the characters that fails to adjust the subject in society.Item Obsessionfor Pleasure in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening(Department of English, 2021) Limbu, SandipThis research analyses“Obsession for Pleasure in Kate Chopin’s“The Awakening”from the perspective of Sigmund Freud structural model psyche. It exposes the behaviors of male and its impact on female psyche to create the obsession for pleasure in their mind and its consequences in the life of women.Obsession means to set the pleasure to get rid from obstacle of her life. She considers that behaviors of male haven’t shown to give female any kind of space in society which is succeeded to create several problems such as anxiety disorder, erotic, abnormality psyche, obsession, libido,self-center etc. Thus Edna convinces people to revolt against male dominated society for women’s rights.In the novel,mind of Edna is guided by Id which is pleasure principle component of the psyche and developed an Id as infants by her repressed desire to fight with Superego. It means Ego could not balance the pleasure seeking principle impulse in Edna. She does not care about other people and social norms, value and morality in order to obtain pleasure is main reason to end her life even if she has two children and husband. This research paper explores that a person can be mentally healthy when he or she balances Freud structural Id, Ego and Superego.This kind of situation did not appear in her life if she had considered about other as social norms, value and morality which help us to determine doing our action is right or wrong. Key Words:Morality, Libido, Obsession, Female Self, Pleasure, Anxiety disorder, Erotic, Abnormality psyche, Id, Ego, Superego