A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Through the Psychoanalytical lens
Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic’s gives us insight into the different layers of a person’s psyche. The three layers of a person psyche’s get more complex as they go on, with the id being the most infantile, the ego being more rational, and the superego relying on complex thinking. The level of development of a person’s unconscious psyche depends largely on the way in which they were raised. In his novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris reveals these three levels through Aunt Ida’s, Christine’s, and Rayona’s experiences so the reader can see their impact on the next one’s psyche.
Aunt Ida was faced with many challenges as a young child , just like all the other characters in the book. She grew up with barely any mother or father figure and was forced to take in a baby at the age of 16. These experiences that Aunt Ida faced, …show more content…
Rayona has had to raise herself because her mother is either partying or in the hospital. She has to grow up with no mother figure since Christine has recently developed a sickness that has put her in the hospital a lot. As Rayona says, ”In the last year Mom had been a regular customer at the Indian Health Service.” (8). When Christine is in the hospital, Rayona has to go home and live by herself, which is hard for a young girl like her and forces her to act older than she actually is. Rayona also has to deal with Christine's immaturity and impulsiveness. One example of this is when Christine wants to buy the video store membership because it is on sale. Rayona is thinking reasonably about it and points out, “We don’t have a VCR” (18). Christine is so entranced in the sale that she buys it. This shows how Rayona has to make the rational thinking in their relationship and proving that Rayona has been forced to develop the superego part of the
Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic’s gives us insight into the different layers of a person’s psyche. The three layers of a person psyche’s get more complex as they go on, with the id being the most infantile, the ego being more rational, and the superego relying on complex thinking. The level of development of a person’s unconscious psyche depends largely on the way in which they were raised. In his novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris reveals these three levels through Aunt Ida’s, Christine’s, and Rayona’s experiences so the reader can see their impact on the next one’s psyche.
Aunt Ida was faced with many challenges as a young child , just like all the other characters in the book. She grew up with barely any mother or father figure and was forced to take in a baby at the age of 16. These experiences that Aunt Ida faced, …show more content…
Rayona has had to raise herself because her mother is either partying or in the hospital. She has to grow up with no mother figure since Christine has recently developed a sickness that has put her in the hospital a lot. As Rayona says, ”In the last year Mom had been a regular customer at the Indian Health Service.” (8). When Christine is in the hospital, Rayona has to go home and live by herself, which is hard for a young girl like her and forces her to act older than she actually is. Rayona also has to deal with Christine's immaturity and impulsiveness. One example of this is when Christine wants to buy the video store membership because it is on sale. Rayona is thinking reasonably about it and points out, “We don’t have a VCR” (18). Christine is so entranced in the sale that she buys it. This shows how Rayona has to make the rational thinking in their relationship and proving that Rayona has been forced to develop the superego part of the