Sunday, March 26, 2017
Psychoanalytic Analysis "That Teenage Feeling"
In the article "That Teenage Feeling" the Twilight series is used as an example as to why woman who consider themselves "feminists" were so captured by the series that has no "feminist" qualities. The series is about a 17 year old girl, Bella, who is new to town, is a loner, and really has nothing special about her until she meets Edward. From that point on Bella is willing to conform to everything that Edward wants and is willing to give up things like college and having a normal life in order to be able to be with him forever. Psychoanalytic analysis argues that literary texts "express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses." The article went to explain that the Twilight story was so capturing that the series broke out of teen fiction and went to capture older women too. The way that the fantasies are laid out, feelings of abortion and pleasure allow us to escape to the Twilight world. Thus the story hits home with unconscious desires that truly captured millions of women.
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Yeah, I definitely agree. I was obsessed with the Twilight series in Middle school. It does give some sort of fantasy and escape to it. Reading back then I never noticed how creepy it really is. Edward watches Bella while she sleeps. That is so creepy. Stephanie Meyer also released a book that reverses the gender of the characters in Twilight to fire back against this criticism. Although, this does not mean that the novel isn't creepy.
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