Written Response 4
Most Persuasive Assertion
Sigmund Freud's most plausible affirm in his essay, Creative Writers and Daydreaming, suggests an unyielding directive based on an author's creative process and pampering of their stories central hero or protagonist. Freud's assertion goes as follows, "One feature above all cannot fail to strike us about the creations of these story-writers: each of them has a hero who is the center of interest, for whom the writer tries to win our Sympathy by every possible means and whom he seems to place under the protection of a special Providence"(Freud 512). Freud's statement identifies the basic fundamental structure of crafting a protagonist in the most miniscule level, which is to say that such a centralized …show more content…
Examples which challenge Freud's assertion are found in the central protagonist of the film Pulp Fiction where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, finds himself at the wrong end of several narratives including a diner that gets robbed, a busted job, and going out with the bosses wife who over doses on his drugs. Vega lacks any sort of Providence and eventually finds himself gunned down in a bathroom. If anything a narrative structure exposes itself expressing the opposite of what Freud suggested, instead of a character protected we find one at a disadvantage of the others. Other examples can be found in the novel Of Mice and Men, when Lennie Small is killed by George for his own good, implying that no protection came over Lennie from birth, suffering a mental condition which puts him at odds with the rest of the world. If such Providence for Central characters existed as Freud claims then either Lennie would have been cured of his mental illness or found solitude in the farm he so dreamed …show more content…
Seeing how the audience consisted of colleges of the psychological profession, it is necessary to assume that the presentation of Freud was a psychoanalytical analyzation of the creative writer. In doing so Freud attempts to give reason to the structure of the creative writing process. Being a psychologist it makes sense for Freud to approach the matter through a psychoanalytical lens. Repression of a memory or a specifically emotional event in life was the key to the majority of Freud’s conclusions for human behavior, such examples can be noticed in his case of the Rat Man and Wolf Man, where Freud consists that their erratic behavior stems from a specific source. The specific source being, a repressed moment in life that expresses itself through the confines of a
Most Persuasive Assertion
Sigmund Freud's most plausible affirm in his essay, Creative Writers and Daydreaming, suggests an unyielding directive based on an author's creative process and pampering of their stories central hero or protagonist. Freud's assertion goes as follows, "One feature above all cannot fail to strike us about the creations of these story-writers: each of them has a hero who is the center of interest, for whom the writer tries to win our Sympathy by every possible means and whom he seems to place under the protection of a special Providence"(Freud 512). Freud's statement identifies the basic fundamental structure of crafting a protagonist in the most miniscule level, which is to say that such a centralized …show more content…
Examples which challenge Freud's assertion are found in the central protagonist of the film Pulp Fiction where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, finds himself at the wrong end of several narratives including a diner that gets robbed, a busted job, and going out with the bosses wife who over doses on his drugs. Vega lacks any sort of Providence and eventually finds himself gunned down in a bathroom. If anything a narrative structure exposes itself expressing the opposite of what Freud suggested, instead of a character protected we find one at a disadvantage of the others. Other examples can be found in the novel Of Mice and Men, when Lennie Small is killed by George for his own good, implying that no protection came over Lennie from birth, suffering a mental condition which puts him at odds with the rest of the world. If such Providence for Central characters existed as Freud claims then either Lennie would have been cured of his mental illness or found solitude in the farm he so dreamed …show more content…
Seeing how the audience consisted of colleges of the psychological profession, it is necessary to assume that the presentation of Freud was a psychoanalytical analyzation of the creative writer. In doing so Freud attempts to give reason to the structure of the creative writing process. Being a psychologist it makes sense for Freud to approach the matter through a psychoanalytical lens. Repression of a memory or a specifically emotional event in life was the key to the majority of Freud’s conclusions for human behavior, such examples can be noticed in his case of the Rat Man and Wolf Man, where Freud consists that their erratic behavior stems from a specific source. The specific source being, a repressed moment in life that expresses itself through the confines of a