Masculine Trauma in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”

سال انتشار: 1401
محل انتشار: دومین همایش ملی دستاوردهای نوین در آموزش، ادبیات، و مترجمی زبان انگلیسی
کد COI اختصاصی: RDELTLT02_012
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 236

نویسندگان

MA student in English Language and Literature, Malayer University

چکیده

This research applies Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of trauma to Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly. It discusses the ways in which the protagonist of the story called ‘the Boss’ attempts to deal with his traumatic memories. Freud in his Studies on Hysteria characterizes individual trauma as: when a person is unable to react to a traumatic or affective memory in a way that successfully “discharges” those effects, therefore; they feel powerless in the situation. It is this feeling of powerlessness that leads to trauma. This relationship between trauma and a lack of power manifests in the boss, which can be seen in his attempts to exert his hegemonic masculinity through the dominance and ownership at any given point of time. The idea of ownership is established throughout the story. The Boss wants to be able feel traumatized at will or to have ownership on his own trauma, so trauma becomes part of the commodity economy in this particular narrative. It is concluded that although normally we associate trauma with loss and inability, trauma becomes the loss that has equitation of ownership.

کلیدواژه ها

Trauma, The Boss, Masculinity, Repression, Freud

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