The Breaking Dawn of Sigmund Freud's Theories. An Enchanting Odyssey

      Аннотация: Sigmund Freud is not the name of an individual but a permanent metaphor of libido 'episteme'. His cosmic romance with the draped 'oasis of the mind' jolted our world, and made everyone to bask in the glory of his peerless discovery the 'unconscious'. By unraveling the perennial human quest of attaining 'Moksha' through his 'Eros' and 'Thanatos' he rejoiced Veni, vidi, vici and the critics hailed him as the 'Copernicus of Psychology'. Through this book which is in the form of an enigmatic 'odyssey' the readers shall be actuated to 'defer' their defense mechanisms and plunge into their 'Id', 'Oedipus complex' and other repressed desires. When entrapped in the aphotic zone of sleep they would be liberated by the twilight glow of their sheet anchor's maxim: 'Dreams the royal road to the unconscious mind'. At the terminal stage of their voyage they would witness how Sigmund Freud acted as a catalyst to inspire literary theorists beyond psychoanalytic school of criticism, and has left an indelible impact on various theories that critics apply to literature today.

Ключевые слова: defense mechanism, dreams, Ego, Id, Literary theory, Psychoanalysis, super-ego, Unconscious, Psycho-sexual Development, Talking-Cure, literary criticism.