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The Imagination and Its «Realities»: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Balzac's "Old Goriot" = = L'imaginaire et ses « realites » : une lecture psychanalytique du « Vieux Goriot » de Balzac /

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正題名/作者:	The Imagination and Its «Realities»: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Balzac's "Old Goriot" =/ Carl J Gomolka Jr.
其他題名:	L'imaginaire et ses « realites » : une lecture psychanalytique du « Vieux Goriot » de Balzac /
作者:	Gomolka, Carl J., Jr.,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (78 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International70-06.
標題:	Romance literature. -
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ISBN:	9780549755371

The Imagination and Its «Realities»: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Balzac's "Old Goriot" = = L'imaginaire et ses « realites » : une lecture psychanalytique du « Vieux Goriot » de Balzac /
Gomolka, Carl J., Jr.,

The Imagination and Its «Realities»: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Balzac's "Old Goriot" =L'imaginaire et ses « realites » : une lecture psychanalytique du « Vieux Goriot » de Balzac /Carl J Gomolka Jr. - 1 electronic resource (78 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06.

Balzac was a man of many talents (or probably better stated a man of many interests): in turn a businessman, an editor, a politician, and a publisher. He discovered his true vocational calling, even if only by financial fatality, as a writer. His magnum opus was a series of eighty-nine stories and novels collectively titled La Comedie humaine and featuring a recurring set of characters. In this work, he presents morally ambiguous characters who are complex and completely human. Le Pere Goriot, one of the most popular novels in the series, tells the story of a young student (Rastignac) who goes to Paris in search of "opportunities" which might guarantee him the success he envisions for himself. During his apprenticeship in the capital (for this novel is a Bildungsroman) Rastignac discovers that the city of lights is a city of mud; both literarily and figuratively. There, he encounters Goriot and Vautrin, two parental polar opposites. While the two men represent different moral and social attitudes, they both, through their relationship with Rastignac, ensure an evolution in the young man's character and although morally ruined at the end, they provide the opportunity for success that the young student was seeking. When studying the life of Balzac, I noticed his extreme passion for the physical, mental sciences and pseudo-sciences. He was particularly interested in the branch of human psychology, maybe because it was a science that could be observed all around him in his friends and acquaintances. It is not surprising that an author who was so interested in science would find a plethora of studies on the "vapeurs" of the 18th century that were, in the 19 th, being studied, re-analyzed and finally, at the end of the century, codified under the term neurosis, which included such illnesses as hypochondria, monomania, etc. Although such terms as neurosis and psychosis would not be formally adopted until 60 years after Balzac's death, when Freud's writings were published, Balzac was prescient, for he created characters whose symptoms were consistent with these pathologies. The character of his Le Pere Goriot represents a sociological catalogue of the beginning of the reign of Louis-Philippe and the bourgeois monarchy in France. In this work, Balzac is inspired by the psychological and sociological notions of his time. By psycho-analysing each of the three main characters, I hope to give a deeper understanding of their evolution or social/physical/mental destruction. The three main characters Goriot, Vautrin and Rastignac each externalize a different aspect of what Freud and others before him would term the id, the ego and the superego. Unable to cope with the indifference of his daughters towards him, Goriot creates a world anchored in the imaginary in order to satisfy an overly active ego, which threatens to ravage his very existence. While Goriot has several brief insights into his actual state, he never fully distinguishes the imaginary world that he creates for himself from the reality in which he must live. He will die because of this failure. Vautrin, the self-defined poet in spirit and emotion, will fail similarly because of an inability to control the id, which induces him to revolt against French society instead of integrating himself into its morally corrupt value system. Vile and satanic in appearance and behavior, Vautrin paradoxically represents the moral and social attitude of the author and could be considered the only true hero in the novel. Distracted by the eclat of luxury that always seems just within his reach, Rastignac fails to control his id in the beginning. However, through his apprenticeship with Goriot and Vautrin, his superego is awakened and he is able to establish a true self, which while stripped of the moral concerns that touched him upon his arrival in Paris, allows him to achieve the success for which he had originally hoped. The cynicism of the novel's conclusion does not however imply that Balzac has no hope for society. Instead, we could say that through the creation of a demoralized self in the character of Rastignac, Balzac highlights the need for a deep understanding of the pressures that weigh upon citizens of 19th century French society. A psychoanalytical analysis of Old Goriot can help give us a new perspective of the realist novel. Meant to be "transparent", the French realist novel lends itself to a psychoanalytical study which can illuminate the author's literary project: the representation of 19th century French society and the ways in which life in this society influences the imaginary. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

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The Imagination and Its «Realities»: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Balzac's "Old Goriot" = = L'imaginaire et ses « realites » : une lecture psychanalytique du « Vieux Goriot » de Balzac /
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520 $a Balzac etait un homme aux multiples talents (ou, pour mieux dire, un homme aux multiples interets) : tour a tour homme d'affaires, editeur, politicien et editeur. Il a decouvert sa veritable vocation professionnelle, ne serait-ce que par fatalite financiere, en tant qu'ecrivain. Son magnum opus etait une serie de quatre-vingt-neuf histoires et romans intitules collectivement La Comedie humaine et mettant en vedette un ensemble recurrent de personnages. Dans cette oeuvre, il presente des personnages moralement ambigus, complexes et completement humains.Le Pere Goriot, l'un des romans les plus populaires de la serie, raconte l'histoire d'un jeune etudiant (Rastignac) qui se rend a Paris a la recherche des "opportunites" qui pourraient lui garantir le succes qu'il envisage pour lui-meme. Lors de son apprentissage dans la capitale (car ce roman est un Bildungsroman) Rastignac decouvre que la ville lumiere est une ville de boue ; tant au sens propre qu'au sens figure. Il y rencontre Goriot et Vautrin, deux parents aux antipodes. Si les deux hommes representent des attitudes morales et sociales differentes, ils assurent tous deux, par leur relation avec Rastignac, une evolution dans le caractere du jeune homme et bien que moralement ruines a la fin, ils offrent l'opportunite de reussite que le jeune etudiant recherchait.En etudiant la vie de Balzac, j'ai remarque son extreme passion pour les sciences physiques, mentales et les pseudo-sciences. Il etait particulierement interesse par la branche de la psychologie humaine, peut-etre parce que c'etait une science qui pouvait etre observee tout autour de lui chez ses amis et connaissances. Il n'est pas etonnant qu'un auteur si interesse par la science ait trouve plethore d'etudes sur les « vapeurs » du XVIIIe siecle qui etaient, au XIXe, etudiees, reanalysees et enfin, a la fin du siecle, codifiee sous le terme de nevrose, qui comprenait des maladies telles que l'hypocondrie, la monomanie, etc. Bien que des termes tels que nevrose et psychose ne soient formellement adoptes que 60 ans apres la mort de Balzac, lorsque les ecrits de Freud furent publies, Balzac etait premonitoire, car il cree des personnages dont les symptomes correspondaient a ces pathologies. Le personnage de son Le Pere Goriot represente un catalogue sociologique du debut du regne de Louis-Philippe et de la monarchie bourgeoise en France. Dans cette oeuvre, Balzac s'inspire des notions psychologiques et sociologiques de son temps. En psychanalysant chacun des trois personnages principaux, j'espere donner une comprehension plus profonde de leur evolution ou de leur destruction sociale/physique/mentale.
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