Transference of Young Werther’s Fragmented Sorrows
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Transference of Young Werther’s Fragmented Sorrows
Johann Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is an exemplary example of classic poetic, epistolary romanticism mixed with naturalism and realism. This novel is of a beautiful yet tragic obsessive love, in which shows a character’s ultimate path of self-destruction. Within this novel the reader sees how Werther’s idea of love evolves, and how he deals with the turmoil one goes through when in love. Especially for someone whom is young, intelligent yet very naïve to things such as love and lets his emotions consume him until his idea of “love” is transformed into obsession which leads him to suicide. The reader sees this rapid progression of Werther’s mental effect on love and how that idea has a considerable impact on Werther’s physical, emotional and mental being more clearly by using Lacan’s literary theory of Mirror Stage. Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage study’s the dependency of external objects have on the ego of an individual. This theory basically adds to the mental image of “I” to an individual. Within the Mirror Stage, Lacan mentions that the effect that love has on a person is transference. Transference is when you transfer the emotions that are internal from a past relationship to a present relationship externally. Essentially, this part of the theory is a basic therapeutic method in which many therapist use today, but can also be destructive to other relationships in how much one person can internalize then how the person externalizes their emotions. Another aspect that Lacan states in his theory is the notion of the fragmented body which is the “self-image” or our container of our physical body. The fragmented body is basically the sequence of steps that are second hand in nature but can be easily shattered by fear. In using Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage and paying attention in particular to both concepts of the fragmented body and transference, the reader can better interpret what Werther is...
Johann Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is an exemplary example of classic poetic, epistolary romanticism mixed with naturalism and realism. This novel is of a beautiful yet tragic obsessive love, in which shows a character’s ultimate path of self-destruction. Within this novel the reader sees how Werther’s idea of love evolves, and how he deals with the turmoil one goes through when in love. Especially for someone whom is young, intelligent yet very naïve to things such as love and lets his emotions consume him until his idea of “love” is transformed into obsession which leads him to suicide. The reader sees this rapid progression of Werther’s mental effect on love and how that idea has a considerable impact on Werther’s physical, emotional and mental being more clearly by using Lacan’s literary theory of Mirror Stage. Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage study’s the dependency of external objects have on the ego of an individual. This theory basically adds to the mental image of “I” to an individual. Within the Mirror Stage, Lacan mentions that the effect that love has on a person is transference. Transference is when you transfer the emotions that are internal from a past relationship to a present relationship externally. Essentially, this part of the theory is a basic therapeutic method in which many therapist use today, but can also be destructive to other relationships in how much one person can internalize then how the person externalizes their emotions. Another aspect that Lacan states in his theory is the notion of the fragmented body which is the “self-image” or our container of our physical body. The fragmented body is basically the sequence of steps that are second hand in nature but can be easily shattered by fear. In using Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage and paying attention in particular to both concepts of the fragmented body and transference, the reader can better interpret what Werther is...