A Psychoanalytic Insight Into Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Psychic Strength From Defense Mechanism
A Psychoanalytic Insight Into Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Psychic Strength From Defense Mechanism作者机构：Gono University Dhaka Bangladesh
出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2012年第2卷第3期
页 面：404-409页
学科分类：090603[农学-临床兽医学] 01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 09[农学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 010108[哲学-科学技术哲学]
主 题：trauma defense mechanism itlusion denial rationalizationIntroduction
摘 要：This paper attempts to analyze Blanche＇s psyche in relation to her employing defense mechanism to restore her mental health and herself in A Streetcar Named Desire （1947） by the American playwright Tennessee Williams. It focuses on her replacing reality with fantastic embodiments or illusion. She has taken unacceptable impulses into acceptable forms by unconsciously blocking the impulses such as superego and thereby reducing agony for the earlier traumatic experiences left indelible marks on her mind, and anxiety for survival. Her anxiety becomes too overwhelming that her ego urgently employs defense mechanisms to protect her. With her new hopes and dreams she desires to replace the highly stressful loss. Under mental and social stress, her illusion and her falsification of reality nevertheless became unable to overcome recurring trauma-causing situation in reality and her healing process thereby leaving her on the verge of extinction.
维普期刊数据库