The Importance Of Alienation In Literature

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In literature, the development is connected with the works of (among others) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and others. In their endeavour to divert from the stylish weight of the realist novel, these writers presented a mixed bag of artistic strategies that includes, the radical interruption of direct stream of narratives; the dissatisfaction of customary desires concerning solidarity and reasonability of plot and character and the circumstances and end results advancement thereof; the arrangement of unexpected and uncertain collocations to raise doubt about the ethical and philosophical significance of scholarly activity; the selection …show more content…
Reference is continually made to it regarding the development of triviality in interpersonal relations, the hindering of self-improvement, the across the board presence of masochist identity attributes, the nonattendance of a feeling of significance in life and the disappearance or demise of God. There is no part of contemporary life which has not been talked about regarding alienation. Regardless of whether it is a standout amongst the most extraordinary elements of this age, it would unquestionably appear to be its watchword. The term's popularity, few individuals have a reasonable thought of correctly what & implies. Alienation is a term which the vast majority comprehend as far as their associate with the compositions of specific rationalists, physiologist, and sociologists whose employments of the term are generally …show more content…
Nevertheless, there are two types of repression, or rather two stages, the first being primal repression as just discussed, which occurs mostly in infancy and will be explored specifically in relation to The Garden Party. Most importantly, an understanding of the second part of repression is most applicable to Henry James’s story, The Beast in the Jungle.
Abbott (2011) observed that this is what Freud called ‘repression proper,’ which concerns the ‘after-pressure’ of both the repulsion and attraction of the instinct created by the primal repression. As mentioned before, the instinct itself does not seize to exist it just becomes sublimated and turned into a repression. Therefore, ‘the trend towards repression would fail in its purpose if these two forces [attraction and repulsion] did not co-operate; if there were not something previously repressed ready to receive what is repelled

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