Mr. Goliadkin’s Split Personality: A Psychoanalytical study of Dostoyevsky’s The Double
Using a psychoanalytical approach, this paper studies Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Double to have a better understanding of the main character’s inner complexities. Goliadkin, the main character, is a government clerk who gradually separates from reality. The argument in this research is based on Sigmun...
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| Language: | fas |
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University of Birjand
2021-08-01
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| Series: | مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی |
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| Online Access: | https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/article_1686_8a4d68fb43e3d32e7b75920ba0d78101.pdf |
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| Summary: | Using a psychoanalytical approach, this paper studies Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Double to have a better understanding of the main character’s inner complexities. Goliadkin, the main character, is a government clerk who gradually separates from reality. The argument in this research is based on Sigmund Freud’s theories. An important cause of his disruption of identity can be figured out through Freud’s theory about the two primary drives. According to him, there are two types of drive that control every individual’s psychic apparatus. The life drive influences his strategies for surviving. Goliadkin’s feelings of insufficiency cause the death drive to thrive; consequently, the creation of an aggressive double follows. Also, Freud’s theory of Oedipus complex is important in the discussion about the character’s dualistic tendencies, his abnormal way of dealing with social circumstances and his fantasies about love. Moreover, Goliadkin’s behavior and thoughts are psychoanalytically studied according to the symptoms of melancholia. |
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| ISSN: | 2783-2759 |