The Id, Ego and Superego in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"

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dc.authorid0000-0002-7170-6196en_US
dc.authorscopusid58516862600en_US
dc.contributor.authorAlkan, Halit
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T12:45:26Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T12:45:26Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.departmentMAÜ, Fakülteler, Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractDealing with human nature, literature is considered to be intertwined with the science of psychology. Psychoanalysis is a method of descending to the unconscious sources of desires, instincts and thoughts and bringing conflicts to the consciousness. Sigmund Freud previously divides the human personality into two systems as unconscious and conscious; however, he then reaches the distinction between ‘id’, ‘ego’ and ‘superego’. While the id works in accordance with instincts, the superego pays regard to morality, but the ego tries to equalize these requests with the reality of the outside world under appropriate conditions. This study aims to analyze the psychological attitudes underlying the behaviors of the characters in William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" through the Freudian concepts of id, ego and superego. Shakespeare changes spaces from society (reality) to nature (dream) in order to arrive at comedy. The Athenians Theseus and Hippolyta are doubled with their fairy counterparts Oberon and Titania, and this doubling offers that the forest in the play is the dreamscape of Athens in which suppressed personalities can emerge. There is reality in daytime and Theseus and Egeus are controlled by the superego in the society. Here, the male-dominant world causes unhappiness to Lysander and Hermia through oppression. There is dream in night-time and the characters are surrounded by the id in the forest. Here, the male-dominant world causes happiness through wish-fulfilment. There is a struggle within all the lovers between the patriarchal superego and the primitive id. The use of psychoanalytic theory in drama is put forward to help readers appreciate this literary text from a different aspect.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlkan, H. (2023). The Id, Ego and Superego in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies (JOMOPS), 4(1), 200-211. https://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2023.96en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.47333/modernizm.2023.96en_US
dc.identifier.endpage211en_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage200en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dergi.modernizm.org/index.php/journal/article/view/225
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/5534
dc.identifier.volume4en_US
dc.institutionauthorAlkan, Halit
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies (JOMOPS)en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectId, Ego, Superego, Personality, Psychoanalysis.en_US
dc.titleThe Id, Ego and Superego in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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