An Analysis of the Creature’s Quest for Identity in Frankenstein in Light of Freud’s Identification Theory

• 作者: LIANG Ting-xue
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: IDENTITY IDENTIFICATION QUEST the Creature
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（13）
• 页码范围: 199-201
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: I106

摘要

Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein have been widely acclaimed and studied ever since her publication of the poignant tale.It tells the story of a young scientist Victor who makes great endeavor to create a hideous creature with the body parts of the dead but is later destroyed by his own creation.Identification,an important concept in the field of psychology,stands for the psychological process by which the subject assimilates a trait,property,or attribute of another subject and is converted completely or partly by the model that another offers.This paper tries to probe into the painful search for his social identity by the Creature in Frankenstein in light of Freud’s identification theory.