What are the main points behind Freud and Jung!?
also having read "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies, is Freud's or Jung's way of thinking more prevalent in the book!. If you could quote references it would be more helpfulWww@QuestionHome@Com
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also having read "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies, is Freud's or Jung's way of thinking more prevalent in the book!. If you could quote references it would be more helpfulWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I would call "Fifth Business" Freudian, in that so much of it involves outcomes from youth dealing with adults and vice versa, and not much of it is recognized by many in the book as being done well!. Lots of baby-raising, lots of argument and grief over the roles forced on people, or the roles taken on to mask people's real fears (like Staunton's, that he would be accused of murder; he carries that secret covered by flamboyant excellence in most of his endeavors in that book); lots of guilt over all manner of things, including Dunstan's brother Will!.!.!. and the 'pinhead' child, and religion vs!. magic; all kinds of things!. Davies packs that book with the Freudian = confusion about parents and parental figures; boys becoming men yet also retaining boyhood guilts and shames; women being 'damned' by their own simple-mindedness and inability to tell anyone 'No'; others judging and condemning and taking revenge for events long past, and probably more!. Freud = wanting the patient to recall and recount every guilt, shame and embarrassment from earliest memory on to the present, to eventually, perhaps, get over it and be whole!. Jung = a patient healing as an individual through guided thought and conversation, through dream interpretation, through 'now-time' efforts at forgiving self and others in the patient's life at that time, and moving on from being confused today to being able to look forward to the future!. This is only as a layman sees it between Freud and Jung, however!. I only took Psych 101 in college, and am giving you what I recall!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Jung is more prevalent in Fifth Business!. Robertson Davies is an avowed and recognized Jungian!. If you continue with the Deptford Trilogy you will find yourself reading The Manticore, which goes a long way to explaining how Jungian philosophy informs all of Davies' work!. In my opinion Freudian elements can be found in almost any novel if one is looking for them!. That does not, however, make the novel philosophically Freudian!. Davies is fairly simple to research, as are both Freud and Jung!. If you spend a little time on that I'm sure that both the characteristics and the necessary references will jump right out at you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |