Latent Lust in The Last Ride Together: A Study in Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud’s primary version of psychoanalytical theory presented in the late 19th century is one that has withstood the tests of time; with just a few exceptions. Freud’s psychoanalytical theory which is comprised of many of Freud’s very unique and great theories like the tripartite mind, psychosexual developmental stages, and defense mechanisms gave insight into the inner-workings of the mind that until then had not yet been discovered nor explored. After all, psychoanalysis centers on exposing the human unconscious by viewing human behavior through a deterministic lens, meaning that the mind is governed by the unconscious, instinctual drives, and other forces.

nothing but destruction can result from it. For example, in Robert Browning’s “ My Last

Freud’s studies were something extraordinary in the first half of the twentieth century. For the remainder of the century, his theories have been criticized, dissected,

For this paper, I will provide a style of Freudian interpretations of Kafka’s “A Dream” tale. Which the famous philosopher, Freud, would interpret symbols for different reasonings behind a dream. In the book, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, he provides an in depth explanation on his beliefs behind the meaning of each occurring dream that we experience. Freud has tons of concepts that he claims for the reasonings behind each dream that have. Whether if we experience a nightmare or just a normal dream. The concepts in Interpretation of Dreams that are primarily focused on in Franz Kafka’s written short story, “A Dream”, are the. According to Freud, he explains that nothing that occurs to us does not just come by chance, so he claims that everything that we do and think of is motivated by our unconscious at some level. He explains the drive of our dreams are to fulfill a wish. The ideas the he explains are dreams occur due to wish fulfillments. He also believes that dreams disguise the wishes of the unconscious, along with dreams are always important and significant, and addition to that dreams express infantile wishes. With the concepts and theories that were presented by Sigmund Freud they will be used to help provide a psychoanalytical interpretation of Franz Kafka’s short story focusing primarily on the symbols that the are hidden in the dream provided by the short story along with an analysis of the dream narrative as a whole.

Breton also explains the Surrealist Manifesto that Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist credited with the theory of psychoanalysis, influenced surrealism (Breton). Breton was fascinated with Freud analysis on the connection between dreams and the subconscious. According to Leon Hoffman in an interview with the American Psychoanalytic Association on Freud's book, Interpretation of Dreams, Freud believes that a person's subconscious is communicating with their conscious through their dreams (Hoffman). As it relates to surrealism, surrealists use psychoanalysis as a tool to produce their artworks. Psychoanalysis was a way to free

While many individuals have made significant contributions to psychoanalysis and the field of psychology, Sigmund Freud has consistently been referred to as the father of psychoanalysis. Moreover, his contributions came at a time where mental health treatment was highly primitive and clinicians lacked insight and awareness about mental health treatments. However, because Freud’s native language was German, some individuals would argue that the true essence of his theories, ideas, treatments, and concepts were lost once his books, papers, etc. were translated into English and other languages. Specifically, Bettelheim (1983) explained his perspective about why Freud’s work, in his opinion, lost its true meaning after being translated. Therefore,

Sigmund Freud's contribution was that he described and defined as a true phenomenon of the subconscious mind, which determines human behaviour and thoughts. Breton has translated this insight into the methodology of art and literature, which is based on the subconscious and imagination, which, he believed, were suppressed rationality, civilization and progress.

It is Freud’s skillful application of resistance and censorship that grants further contemplation of why dreams are so soon to fade and be forgotten upon awakening. It is also this application that guides the reader into how these two processes may require one to use free association to interpret such dreams. Resistance and censorship are explained by Freud as a cognitive process that happens due to the separation of the waking and sleeping mental states. He presents the idea that while one sleeps, the cognitive censorship used throughout waking hours is significantly reduced, making dreams possible. However, immediately present upon awakening is mental resistance, resulting in the “forgetting” or “fragmenting” of dreams.

“Dream interpretation is a process of assigning meaning to dreams.” In ancient Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention whose messages that could be reveled by people with certain powers. Sigmund Freud came up with two techniques to get information on his patients “unconscious minds.” One of Freud’s techniques that he came up with was interpreting dreams.

Freud built his main theories at the onset of the twentieth century, developing the consistent perspective that because our dreams represent our deep, dark suppressed desires, predominantly associated with repressed sexuality, we experience ‘manifest dreams’ this dream in which can be recalled when woken, but this is simply a crude disguise for our true unconscious, the ‘latent dream’. Freud believed dreaming to be an internal deflection formation, “baring witness to both side of the conscious”. Within this perspective we become reacquainted with very familiar Freudian terms, such as “displacement and condensation”, both techniques serve one primary purpose to protect the ego, and subsequently the dreamer.

This paper will prove that Sigmund Freud theory of John Keats’s poem “Ode on Melancholy” is flawed. Demonstrated through quotations and additional sources by scholarly articles, Freud’s idea of Freudian criticism will be highlighted as the key point. To understand Freudian criticism one must understand psychoanalytic criticism. Psychoanalysis of literature is the psychoanalysis of the author or a character in each work. Psychoanalytic criticism implements the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It claims that literary texts, demonstrate the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is an indicator of the author 's own psychoses. One may psychoanalyze a character

This passage from “Psycho-analysis,” Sigmund Freud’s essay detailing the origins, methods, and applications of his theory of psychoanalysis, reveals the utility of his approach in understanding what lies beneath the surface through the interpretation of dreams, which later psychoanalytic critics related to the interpretation of literature. Freud’s description of his psychoanalytic theory considers it an approach to unlocking knowledge that is impossible to discover through prior methods of psychology and that is applicable across all areas of the sciences and humanities. Here, students of Freud’s theory can find correlations between psychoanalysis to both structuralism and deconstruction through his method of interpreting dreams, which

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, takes the audience on a wild and confusing ride through the human unconscious. From the play within the play, to fairies causing mayhem, what is to be considered reality? The notion of falling asleep and dreaming is introduced over and over in the play, and leaves the audience wondering, is any of this real? Throughout this paper, I will attempt to explain the parallels between Shakespeare’s work, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the work of the Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud, whose most popular work is that of dreams and dream interpretations.

There are certain psychoanalytic concepts expressed by Sigmund Freud that can be applied to interpret literary texts. Most of the literary texts, like dreams, articulate the secret unconscious desires and concerns of the author, that a literary work is expression of the author’s own neuroses. For instance, one may analyze a particular character within a literary work from the psychoanalytic view, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are outcrops of the author’s psyche.