Bc. Linda Šubertová

Master's thesis

The 19th-Century Narcissus: A Psychoanalytic Study of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

The 19th-Century Narcissus: A Psychoanalytic Study of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray
Abstract:
Cílem této magisterské práce je podat komplexní psychoanalytický rozbor hlavního hrdiny románu Oscara Wilda Obraz Doriana Graye založený na teoriích Carla Gustava Junga a Jacquesa Lacana. Práce nejprve představuje podstatu psychoanalytické literární kritiky, načež následují Lacanovy teorie stádia zrcadla a registrů reálna, imaginárna a symbolična s Jungovou teorií psychických funkcí, z nichž práce …more
Abstract:
The aim of this thesis is to provide a complex psychoanalytic insight into the protagonist of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray with the aid of the theories developed by Carl Gustav Jung and Jacques Lacan. The thesis first introduces the field of psychoanalytic literary criticism, followed by Lacan’s theories of the mirror stage, the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, and Jung’s theory …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 25. 5. 2022

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 13. 6. 2022
  • Supervisor: Ph.D. Stephen Paul Hardy
  • Reader: doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD.

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