'A Psychoanalytical Approach to the Awakening\r'

'The psychoanalytic approach understands us from the aim of view of our unconscious mind and early puerility experiences. The approach is based on Freud’s belief that that there is a social organisation of the mind that includes the id, the superego and the ego. The plot of The Awakening, revolves around Edna Pontellier and the awaken of her unconscious sexuality, the need for love and her zest of independence. Edna and her family go to a resort to cut down their summer.Edna’s husband, Leonce, adores his wife but considers her to be neglectful as a wife and a mother. â€Å"He reproached his wife with her inattention, her accustomed neglect of the children. ” (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 3, para. 6). At the resort she meets Robert, the possessor’s son, and realizes that she can no monthlong pretend that she is happy with her husband and her children. This unconscious realization is triggered by the sight of the maritime one day. The sight made Edna ve nture of simpler times when she believed that she could attain anything.Edna reminisced how ab protrude how odoring at the ocean reminded her of when she was a teenager and would walk through a meadow that â€Å"seemed as big as the ocean,” (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 7, para. 15). She confided in Madam Ratignolle that â€Å"sometimes I feel this summer as if I were go through the green meadow once more; idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided. ” (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 7, para. 20) I believe this was her depression unconscious realization that she missed not having the responsibilities of being a wife and a mother.Later in the story, the sea becomes a sign of empowerment. â€Å"As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. ” (Chopin, 205, Chapter 10, para. 10). It was subsequently learning to swim that Edna began to stand up for herself, such as she did when Leonce demanded that she go into the category that evening and she refused. She recalled that in the past she had endlessly succumbed to his demands without a mind. This was no longer the instance with her. Finally, Edna chose to end her life in the ocean.The thought process of not being able to conduct Robert had pushed her to the edge. She also could not bear the thought of forgetting about Robert in the same vogue that she had forgotten the gentleman that she had crossed the meadow for so many years ago. As she swam out into the water, she was â€Å"thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no rootage and no end. ” (Chopin, 2005, Chapter 39, para. 28) References Chopin, K. (2005). The Awakening. Vitalsource Digital Version. Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press.\r\n'