‘Frankenstein’ from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Byeong-Yong Lee
Kim Dong-In Psychiatry Clinic, Jeonju, Korea
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.- Abstract
- This article aims to analyze the novel Frankenstein from a psychoanalytic perspective. Frankestein reflects Mary Shelley’s unconscious world. Like dreams in psychoanalysis, this novel contains various unconscious meanings. Mary Shelly lost her mother early in life, and she was obsessed with the unconscious fantasy of being neglected by her mother and becoming a monster who murdered her. The protagonist in Frankenstein, a monster who was neglected by his creator Victor Frankenstein, finally destroys the latter. This monster could be Mary Shelly’s self-portrait. The novel has extensive content related to the incest impulse and fear. It represents Mary Shelley’s unconscious longing for her mother. The relationship between Frankenstein and the monster serves to symbolize Mary Shelley’s ambivalent object relationship with her l deceased mother.
- Keywords : Dream · Novel · Monster · Incest wish · Object relation.
- October 2024, 35 (4)
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