Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate's graphic treatment Sigmund Freud and his theories of hysteria explode with images and stories that bring Freud's theories to life. Their vision of Sigmund Freud's evolving theories are both provocative and clever. In particular, Appignanesi/Zarate's analyses of Freud's theory and practice seem perfectly suited to an analysis (diagnosis?) of the main characters in John Green's The Fault in our Stars. In the pages that follow, I will attempt to forge a link between Appignanesi and Zarate's intriguing treatment of Freud's work and Green's novel,with a particular focus on The psychological effects of death, suffering, sickness, and the fear of oblivion on the living. By doing so, I hope to illustrate how Appignanesi
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Whether it manifests physically, emotionally, or mentally; pain- all prominent in both works. For example the pain show in these stem from loss, disaster, sickness, and in the case of cancer; treatment as well. However in Green’s work a philosophy that the main characters believe in is, “Pain demands to be felt,” (Green 63). Hazel and Augustus realize that it cannot be avoided and actively seeks expression, in the specific instance by breaking years worth of basketball trophies which prior to Augustus’s cancer, was a large portion of his life. Zarate often only shows one single tear when a character cries cries or feel pain. This can be further interpreted as trying to suppress those strong emotions felt. Along with this, the same is true for with Appignanesi’s Freud because some of the cases explored are concerning the effects on the mind with pain being suppressed. With the case of the rat man, the patient’s deeper fear of the death of his loved ones manifested in a fear of rats and the desire to kill himself (Appignanesi 102-110). Freud as portrayed by Appignanesi close to mirrors Green’s character Peter Van Hourton who authors the book An Imperial Affliction. Van Hourton puts into words how Hazel and Augustus feel about their own inevitable deaths by writing a book that ends mid sentence when the narrating character dies. In an analysis of the psychological state done by Daniel Widlöcher how keeping in a fear of …show more content…
Zarate takes an entire page show how critical the reaction to Freud’s work. In this, not only are others barraging Freud about how disgusting his work is, but the church officials shown either have hats that resemble a phallic shape or their own head drawn in the shape of a penis. Even in the details Zarate gives the young boy the appearance of having an erection and another man’s nose shaped to resemble a penis by the use of lines. These images are used to show how common sexuality occurs in the daily life, yet ignored by those who are to afraid to address, likely due to the stigma surrounding talking about sexually they are left with little idea how to do so (Appignanesi 99). With Green’s Hazel and Augustus their sexually is not the subject their society avoids discussing but instead their death. In this, Hazel and Augustus are like Freud in the manner that they are not only open to talking about their death and cancer but unapologetically curious about it. Secondary characters around these two avoid talking about death in general and even under the accidental slip ups when mentioning death they immediately apologize. “‘I mean, I would just die—“'and then stopped short, looking at me as if to say I'm sorry, as if it were a crime to mention death to the
Whether it manifests physically, emotionally, or mentally; pain- all prominent in both works. For example the pain show in these stem from loss, disaster, sickness, and in the case of cancer; treatment as well. However in Green’s work a philosophy that the main characters believe in is, “Pain demands to be felt,” (Green 63). Hazel and Augustus realize that it cannot be avoided and actively seeks expression, in the specific instance by breaking years worth of basketball trophies which prior to Augustus’s cancer, was a large portion of his life. Zarate often only shows one single tear when a character cries cries or feel pain. This can be further interpreted as trying to suppress those strong emotions felt. Along with this, the same is true for with Appignanesi’s Freud because some of the cases explored are concerning the effects on the mind with pain being suppressed. With the case of the rat man, the patient’s deeper fear of the death of his loved ones manifested in a fear of rats and the desire to kill himself (Appignanesi 102-110). Freud as portrayed by Appignanesi close to mirrors Green’s character Peter Van Hourton who authors the book An Imperial Affliction. Van Hourton puts into words how Hazel and Augustus feel about their own inevitable deaths by writing a book that ends mid sentence when the narrating character dies. In an analysis of the psychological state done by Daniel Widlöcher how keeping in a fear of …show more content…
Zarate takes an entire page show how critical the reaction to Freud’s work. In this, not only are others barraging Freud about how disgusting his work is, but the church officials shown either have hats that resemble a phallic shape or their own head drawn in the shape of a penis. Even in the details Zarate gives the young boy the appearance of having an erection and another man’s nose shaped to resemble a penis by the use of lines. These images are used to show how common sexuality occurs in the daily life, yet ignored by those who are to afraid to address, likely due to the stigma surrounding talking about sexually they are left with little idea how to do so (Appignanesi 99). With Green’s Hazel and Augustus their sexually is not the subject their society avoids discussing but instead their death. In this, Hazel and Augustus are like Freud in the manner that they are not only open to talking about their death and cancer but unapologetically curious about it. Secondary characters around these two avoid talking about death in general and even under the accidental slip ups when mentioning death they immediately apologize. “‘I mean, I would just die—“'and then stopped short, looking at me as if to say I'm sorry, as if it were a crime to mention death to the