Freudian Theory In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Freudianism Theory in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Sigmund Freud created the idea of the ‘psychologically divided self’, describing how there were three parts to the mind: the id, the ego, and the super-ego. Freud states how humans have the “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in a man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture”(Freud 49). The ‘id’ represents a human’s primitive component of their mind, the ‘ego’ is where human’s mind make the decisions, and the ‘superego’ is the components of one’s values and morals. Overall, there is a part in the human’s mind where there's repression for desires that are unaccepted by civilized society, but sometimes nobody is perfect to hide them such as Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Bangerter). Humans project their desire in a variety of things, one of the being dreams, where one’s unspeakable desires can be freed. In a freudian analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor created the creature, which represents his alter ego, where the creature exhibits his subconscious desires. Throughout the novel, Victor Frankenstein has these perverse dreams after he brought life to the creature. In these dreams, it can examined the reason for Victor’s action and the close relationship between the monster affects him. For example, the only person …show more content…
Instead of accomplishing a scientific breakthrough, he brought his subconscious and darkest desires to life. Both reach a point of where their behaviors can’t be sustained, so Frankenstein dies without taking any responsibility and the creature with the utmost amount of guilt. The creature wasn’t able to survive without Frankenstein since their bond was more profound and their deaths support this. Frankenstein gave the creature the reason to do these action, that eventually tore both these people