Throughout her life, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1787-1851) had faced numerous traumatic experiences with parenthood- i.e her mother 's and her children 's deaths- which engendered different interpretations of Frankenstein. Analogous to Shelley ' s life, actions in Frankenstein have illustrated the need of parental figures in a child 's life; consequently, utilizing Sigmund Freud 's theories will substantiate that self-identification only flourishes through a healthy parent-child relationship, and that unhealthy parent-child relations have proven to result in consequences during a child 's identity construction. As a result, Shelley, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and the creature had acted destructively due to their inability to identify, which
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Therefore, a comparative Freudian psycho examination between parent-child relationships in Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and Mary Shelley 's life, will parallel the immense importance of nurture rather than nature in identity …show more content…
The mechanisms to cope to repress are believed to act as muscles in the psyche. On one hand, if the coping mechanism exists- if the parent is assumed to take shape as the alpha-function- the ability to cope strengthens, allowing the person to healthfully face emotional experiences throughout his or her life. On the other hand, when an mother-infant relationship is severed, the event encourages repression by removing the agent that compromises the repression, which acts as a path to thought. Mary Shelley, as stated in the psychoanalysis of Frankenstein, definitely repressed all emotions surrounding her mother 's loss. Similar to the creature, without a maternal or paternal figure, Mary Shelley had been abandoned to search for an object or an individual- i.e Pecy Shelley- which would replace the missing piece of the parental puzzle. Subsequently, Mary Shelley and her motherless and fatherless creature had been subjected to their abandonment, forcing the two unfortunate individuals to repress any emotions surrounding the circumstance, which lead to a deterioration in the attempt to create their true selves. The events delineate that a child is, as a result, doomed to roam in a world of an unsuccessful idenity
Therefore, a comparative Freudian psycho examination between parent-child relationships in Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and Mary Shelley 's life, will parallel the immense importance of nurture rather than nature in identity …show more content…
The mechanisms to cope to repress are believed to act as muscles in the psyche. On one hand, if the coping mechanism exists- if the parent is assumed to take shape as the alpha-function- the ability to cope strengthens, allowing the person to healthfully face emotional experiences throughout his or her life. On the other hand, when an mother-infant relationship is severed, the event encourages repression by removing the agent that compromises the repression, which acts as a path to thought. Mary Shelley, as stated in the psychoanalysis of Frankenstein, definitely repressed all emotions surrounding her mother 's loss. Similar to the creature, without a maternal or paternal figure, Mary Shelley had been abandoned to search for an object or an individual- i.e Pecy Shelley- which would replace the missing piece of the parental puzzle. Subsequently, Mary Shelley and her motherless and fatherless creature had been subjected to their abandonment, forcing the two unfortunate individuals to repress any emotions surrounding the circumstance, which lead to a deterioration in the attempt to create their true selves. The events delineate that a child is, as a result, doomed to roam in a world of an unsuccessful idenity