{"id":39,"date":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng333-draft\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2018-12-09T03:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:25:22","slug":"application-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/application-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychoanalytic Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Robert Browning\u2019s \u201cPorphyria\u2019s Lover\u201d Browning shows the use of Sigmmund Freud\u2019s theory of fear of abandonment though his main character and his lover. The main character is essentially trying to control time with death ;his fear of death comes from fear of abandonment.Half way through the text the main character decides to kill his lover for the sake of preserving\/ freezing her love for him. \u00a0Although the text does not mention the fact that someone had abandoned him previously, his actions have justified Freud\u2019s theory that one&#8217;s actions represent the repressed memory stored in the unconscious. By using this particular theory to analyze this text I was able to understand that i<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.8rem\">n order for the main character to\u00a0 prevent his lover from\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">leaving him, changing his negative environment into a positive one, and give up her purity, his <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">final decision is to kill her. By killing her he ultimately is able to perpetuate his own misery by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">continuing the cycle. In addition to, seeing that she is dead he is now able to control her body\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.8rem\">and keep their love \u201ceverlasting\u201d which is something he may have failed to do with a significant\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">individual in his past, maybe his mother perhaps. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, he does show some form on the conscious mind at the end when he states \u201cAnd all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!\u201d This shows that he felt some form of guilt. If he did not believe that God would do anything to punish his actions he would not have mentioned God, thus, this is his conscious mind acknowledging the tragic deed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.wp.odu.edu%2Fedmondsengl333%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F11624%2F2018%2F12%2FSandbox-3.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11624\/2018\/12\/Sandbox-3.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, 80KB)<\/a><\/p><\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Robert Browning\u2019s \u201cPorphyria\u2019s Lover\u201d Browning shows the use of Sigmmund Freud\u2019s theory of fear of abandonment though his main character and his lover. The main character is essentially trying to control time with death ;his fear of death comes from fear of abandonment.Half way through the text the main character decides to kill his&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/application-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12078,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}