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Freud was a psychologist who had many ideas about how the unconscious and conscious mind works.
Oedipus Complex: a subconscious sexual desire in a child, especially a male child, for the parent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility to the parent of the same sex. The child particularly fears what he believes to be the father's power to castrate him.
What is the significance of Gregor turning into a life-sized beetle?
Father: repressed any goals he ever had until his son changed into a bug and he was forced to support his family
Mother: repressed the urge to hate her son in the bug form
Gregor: repressed the urge to go after his mother and hate his father by putting everything into his work
Grete: repressed the goal to go to the observatory
Father presents the superego that represses Gregors desires
revealed through punishment
can create guilt in an individual
conscious and unconscious
he’s in an unconscious state throughout
imagery: cold, unfeeling, dark place, stormy, rainy, foggy
longings and desires are unconscious feelings
Freud: all images whose length exceeds their diameter are considered as male or phallic symbols. legs are symbol of phallus (power)
phallic stage: legs, oedipus complex, frustration with father
http://isca.in/rjrs/archive/v2/i10/16.ISCA-RJRS-2013-202.pdf
“Gregor was initially submissive towards his father, he was chased back into his room when he tried to escape it.”
http://ahhthreethirty.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/kafkas-the-metamorphosis-with-some-freudian-insight/
"Gregor should have caught the five o'clock train for work as a commercial traveller, that is, a psychic change should have occurrred at the normal age of five, when the first awareness of of a divided or sinful nature usually appears within the formation of the superego" -The American Imago
Barfi, Zahra, Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, and Hamedreza Kohzadi. A Study of Kafka’s the Metamorphosis in the Light of Freudian Psychological Theory. Research Journal of Recent Sciences. N.p., 30 June 2013. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
Kafka, F. Metamorphosis. Trans. David Wylie. (2002.) Project Gutenberg. 20 May 2012. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/
"Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” with Some Freudian insight." Theory 330. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.
Webster, Peter Dow. "Kafka's Metamorphosis As Death and Resurrection Fantasy." The American Imago 16.4 (Winter 1959): 349-365. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Anna Sheets-Nesbitt. Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Artemis Literary Sources. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
Where This Leads
Conclusion
Questions this view may bring up:
Is every piece of literature actually influenced by this?
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Is this stuff really true?