The Diary of a Young Girl: Psychosexual Revelation of Anne Frank
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Abstract
The present research makes a study of Anne Frank, the writer of the diary,
exploring her psychosexual build up. This exploration is conducted particularly on the
basis of Freudian psychoanalysis. The nearly fifteen years old Anne Frank’s
awareness of her sexuality makes her psychological growth normal. She is hopeful
and optimistic towards her life, even though it is being shattered day by day. Her daily
life has been disturbed by the daily news of mass murder of the Jews, yet her
psychosexual growth towards a matured woman is not blocked. The Nazis are on the
way to eliminate Jewish people from Europe, but they can not wipe out the happiness
of Anne’s appearance, ambition of being a writer, faith on goodness, capacity for self-
awareness and the journey towards a matured woman, because they get the foundation
from her own psychosexuality.