The Turn Of The Screw: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
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What are the features of The Turn of the Screw that seem to you to most invite psychoanalytic interpretation?
When considering the features of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw that invite a psychoanalytical interpretation it is necessary to establish the nature of psychoanalytic criticism. By u ....
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.... Freud's generation would concentrate on the author and his state of mind, however, later critics focussed more on an analysis of the characters.
A psychoanalytic interpretation of The Turn of the Screw can bring about many questions. Primarily those concerning the ghosts, the sanity of the governess and the goodness of the children. A psychoanalytic reading of the novel reveals that the governess is a mad sexual hysteric, which, in turn, leads to the ghosts being read as hallucinations or proj ....
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