A Study on A Streetcar Named Desire ——From Jungian Perspective

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v4i1.626

Minrong Li

Shantou Polytechnic

Abstract

A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous representative play by Tennessee Williams, an American drama master. He often discusses the separation between the individual and the modern society, and madness is his eternal theme. The heroine Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire came from a family in the south of the United States. Due to the cruel reality of life her ID was severely repressed. She refused to acknowledge the shadow, stubbornly adhere to the mask personality, and eventually ended into madness. This paper chooses psychoanalysis as the research perspective, adopts Jungian psychology theory to interpret desire, and concludes that Blanche will get a new starting point and enlightenment after the outbreak of neurosis, which is contrary to the traditional theory.

Keywords

mask; Jungian; neurosis; shadow

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