A Freudian analysis of why we are drawn to literature and what it does for us.
Tag Archives: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Freud: Lit Leads to Self Mastery
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bruno Bettelheim, Interpretation of Dreams, Joseph Conrad, Oedipus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, Sophocles Comments closed
Mr. Hyde Is Taking over America
Dr. Jekyll is so buttoned down that his Hyde side emerges, but he looks pretty good to an America that is losing restraint.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged alter ego, Angela Carter, etiquette, horror, Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Robert Louis Stevenson Comments closed
Discovering the Bad Girl Within
My student’s project on literary bad girls looks at “Jane Eyre,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alias Grace, Charlotte Bronte, doppelganger, Jane Eyre, Margaret Atwood, Robert Louis Stephenson, Sula, Toni Morrison, uncanny Comments closed
Paterno’s Rapist Associate and Mr. Hyde
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” warns us that we are in danger of becoming monsters ourselves if we don’t hold on to our humanity when responding to monsters like alleged child molester Jerry Sandusky, close associate of Coach Joe Paterno.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Child Abuse, Lolita, monstrosity, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov Comments closed
