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Psychoanalytic Approach to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


    It?s easy to associate Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with one of Jung?s archetypal motif patterns: the hero and the quest.  Through lots of difficulties or challenges, Sir Gawain reaches the higher ground of knighthood, and also proves himself worthy of a courtly masculine identity.  It still seems quite daring and risky to apply psychoanalytic approach into the text itself, especially it comes with the Oedipus complex.  But if we put Freud?s three psychic zones and Sir Gawain?s conflict together, or related his fear of castration with his fear of being beheaded, the applying of psychoanalytic approach is acceptable.  Within the connections mentioned above, we can see how the father figures function and how a knight?s masculinity is maintain by abstaining from sexual desire in medieval period.   

    Sir Gawain is similar to any other hero we see in mythology, who is predisposed to response any obstacles coming upon them, and is thus getting mature both physically and mentally.    So the process of being a real... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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