Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) and August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1889): A Freudian Study.
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2020
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The present dissertation has dealt with a psychoanalytical study of the literary works,
A doll’s House (1879) by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen’s and Miss Julie
(1889) by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s. Our main concern in the
following works is to analyse the protagonists’ psyche and explore their repressed
feelings by highlighting their lives, personal experience as well as the way they attain
their ideal selves; in addition, through the course of the plays, Nora and Miss Julie
seem to forget about their reality and continue to denounce their control until they
realize that they should seek for their true identity and move into their ideal selves and
escape the world they were living in. Furthermore, Nora Helmer and Miss Julie are
both influenced by their parents which led them to develop the Freudian notion of
Oedipus complex. Finally, we are going to explore Miss Julie’s dream as well as Nora
Helmer’s dream world. For the fulfilement of our work, we borrow from Freud’s
Complete Works 2007 some analytical concepts such us: Oedipus complex to treat the
first chapter, Id, Ego and Superego for the second chapter and the concept of the
Interpretation of Dreams to deal with the last chapter of our memoir.
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30cm ; 61p.
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Literature and Civilization