The proof of the "ideal" picture is not being able to discern object from representation - to be convinced that one is looking at the real thing.
Read moreįor most people, "duplicating reality" is an assumed, if not obvious goal for any contemporary imaging technology. An open recognition of the problems in the psychoanalytic study of literature should serve to minimize dilettantism and raise the level of scholarship. Throughout, I have drawn attention to the need for greater scholarly rigor and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. I have stressed the need to analyze our emotional response to a work as affording a valuable source of insight into the work itself.
Through a re-examination of the Antigone as an aesthetic totality I have sketched out what appears to be an alternative manner of approaching the drama, and suggested that works of art reach us on both unconscious and conscious levels. Although data about the artist's life and sociocultural environment may be of crucial significance, it is the text itself that must be the ultimate object of study. the therapeutic process, the drama itself is often used to corroborate an author's theoretical bias or to advance some special interest, with consequent distortion or blurring of the text. Foremost among these is the inherent difficulty that the interpretation of literature is unable to benefit from the process of the analytic situation. Through a critical review of several studies dealing with Sophocles' drama, the Antigone, I have explored some of the prominent methodological problems encountered in the psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. This paper is an attempt to make a psychoanalytical study of the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson to show how the poet has portrayed his mental working at that stage of his life through the story of Ulysses. His consideration about his family, evaluation of the people and the country and the demonstrated determination to explore the unexplored actually show a tendency that can be traced in the poet's life and his experiences. But a conscious study of the poem displays a totally ignored dimension of it and that is Ulysses's availing of unconscious psychological mechanisms to avoid the reality he faces after returning from the hazardous journey of ten years after a decade long Trojan War. The piece is also read as a representation of the strength and vigour of an old man surpassing that of the youth by being an emblem of the quest for yet unattained knowledge. The poem is generally thought as an expression of an individual self and his sense of superiority where the superiority of race and colonial enterprise has been propagated unreservedly.
Ulysses", the oft-quoted poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is often considered as a representation of the Victorian spirit through the mythological character.
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