SIGMUND FREUD’S CONCEPTION OF “SUPER-EGO” AND “ID” AND THEIR CONTRAPOSITION IN PHILIP ROTH’S “PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT”

Authors

  • Lusine ADAMYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2020.24.2.105

Keywords:

Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, Philip Roth, “super-ego”, “id”, Oedipus complex, hypercompensation

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the analysis of Sigmund Freud’s influence on Philip Roth’s novel “Portnoy’s Complaint”, which is written in the form of the main protagonist Alexander Portnoy’s psychoanalysis session. The main focus is on Freud’s conception of three elements of human soul – super-ego, ego, id and the problem of the Oedipal complex which Portnoy has been suffering from since his childhood.

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Published

2020-11-30

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (29) (2020)

Section

Literary Criticism

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