Sigmund Freud s The Bluest Eye Essay - 1328 Words

Have you ever wonder why people act the way they do? Do you know what is going on in their mind? Inspired by his influential, Sigmund Freud observed and researched about human mind and behaviors. He examined hysterical patients and tried to treat them in various ways. There are causes and reasons for every act of human beings. There are so many thoughts going on in people’s mind that you would not know until they tell you. Eventually, Freud came up with psychoanalytic theory and explained it thoroughly in â€Å"Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis.† Freud’s theory has influenced many writer and is also illustrated in Literatures. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, portrays psychoanalytic concepts of Sigmund Freud where characters experience displacement, wishful impulse, and repression of cruel memory in the unconscious. Claudia experience the theory of displacement which is introduced in Third Lecture. Freud gives an anecdote about the joke of the critic’s op inion on the portraits to illustrate displacement. The critic would not say his actual opinion about the portraits that he has in his mind. Instead, he makes a joke to make others confused. The critic knows what he really thinks about the pictures, but he disguises his thoughts. He substitutes his insult with the joke. In The Bluest Eye, whiteness is an ideal standard of beauty where girls want to have light skin, blue eyes, and yellow hair. On Christmas day, Claudia gets white doll with blue eyes for her gift. She hates it