Psychoanalysis Perspective Kate Chopin

Psychoanalysis is a form of therapy which aims to cure mental disorders ‘by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind’ (Comise Oxford Dictionary). It is elaborated by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Psychoanalysis is a rather detailed and complicated theory of personality and motivation - of what makes people do what they do. It is also a type of therapy. Simply put, psychoanalysis involves the exploration of a person’s unconscious thought processes through methods such as free association – saying whatever comes to mind – and dream analysis. It is included ego, super ego, and id, Defense Mechanism, and Projection. Then for this analyzes I would use ego, repression, and Projection.

The meaning of ego is conscious, to make something good in life, and repression is Forgetting or ignoring of unresolved conflict, unadmitted desires or traumatic past event, so that they are forced out of conscious awareness and into the realm of the unconscious. And then Projection is aspect of our self (usually negative ones) are not recognize as part of ourselves but are perceived in or attributed to another, our own desire or antagonism, for instance may be disowned in this way. I would analyze the father using ego and for Armand I will use repression and Projection.

Armand and his father have a different attitude toward the slave because they have different reason, His father threats the slaves well, he never does a violence thing to the slaves. Because he knows that if he threat and put the slaves on the very low class in the family, it will also hurt his wife which is mix blood. Aware or not, with acted cruelly it will make his wife feel the pain too. His wife is a mix blood and black is also part of his origin. He did not want to hurt his wife and it s not a big problem whether his wife is mix blood or not. So, he treat their slaves as good as a white people. The good things is that Armand’s father comes from a good named