Madness and Freudian Readings

A new bachelor thesis:

Motifs of Madness in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

by Kateřina Táborská

Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American Studies, 2021

And Brontë scholars from Iraq:

A Freudian Reading of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Shaima Abdullah Jassim, Alaa Muzahim Abdulrazaq

English Department, College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University, Iraq2 English Department, College of Education for women, Anbar University, Iraq

Journal of AlMaarif University College, Volume (32) Issue (1) 2021, p. 466

There are many theories that emerged in fields other than literature but influenced the literary works greatly. These theories are used by scholars and critics to analyses and study the literary text. Among these theories are  Sigmund  Freud’s psychoanalysis and the theory of interpretation of dreams. According to  Freud,  the human mind is divided into two parts:  the conscious and the subconscious. Freud used this theory to treat his patients by making them lie down and talk about their dreams, childhood, and other thoughts.    It is an attempt to make the unconscious conscious.  Additionally,  the unconscious can be revealed through the slips of the tongue  (paraphrases)  and dreams.  Moreover, Freud assumes that the human psyche consists of three parts:  Id  (a  store of the human desires and needs); superego (the part of the psyche which represents the high ideals); ego (the part which tries to make a compromise between the id and the superego). He also emphasizes the effect of our childhood upon our lives. The present study is a Freudian reading to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering  Heights with reference to the impact of the author’s life upon the flow of the events and the lives of the characters.