No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. Esther is a talen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erikson, Kajsa
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora 2021
Subjects:
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
psychoanalysis
feminism
Oedipus complex
bisexuality
castration
hysteria
melancholia
Specific Literatures
Litteraturstudier
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