A Psychoanalytical Approach to the Awakening

The psychoanalytic get on understands us from the point of view of our unconscious and early childhood experiences. The set about is based on Freuds belief that that there is a expression of the mind that includes the id, the superego and the ego. The plot of The Awakening, revolves around Edna Pontellier and the awakening of her unconscious sexuality, the need for bop and her desire of independence. Edna and her family go to a resort to spend their summer.Ednas husband, Leonce, adores his married woman but considers her to be neglectful as a wife and a mother. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 3, para. 6). At the resort she meets Robert, the possessors son, and realizes that she can no longer pretend that she is happy with her husband and her children. This unconscious realization is triggered by the circle of the ocean one day. The sight made Edna think of simpler times when she believed that she could attain anything.Edna reminisced how about how looking at the ocean reminded her of when she was a teenager and would walk through a hayfield that seemed as big as the ocean, (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 7, para. 15). She confided in Madam Ratignolle that sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the parking area meadow again idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided. (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 7, para. 20) I believe this was her first unconscious realization that she missed not having the responsibilities of being a wife and a mother.Later in the story, the sea becomes a symbol of empowerment. As she swam she seemed to be hit out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. (Chopin, 205, Chapter 10, para. 10). It was after learning to blow that Edna began to stand up for herself, such as she did when Leonce demanded that she go into the house that eventide and she refused. She recalled that in the past she had always succumbed to his demands without a thought. This was no longer the strip with her. Finally, Edna chose to end her life in the ocean.The thought of not being fitted to have Robert had pushed her to the edge. She also could not bear the thought of forgetting about Robert in the same way that she had forgotten the gentleman that she had crossed the meadow for so many years ago. As she swam out into the water, she was thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end. (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 39, para. 28) References Chopin, K. (2005). The Awakening. Vitalsource Digital Version. Raleigh, NC hay Barton Press.