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Frankenstein and Schizoprenia
Title: Frankenstein and Schizoprenia
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1225 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Frankenstein and Schizoprenia
In a psychoanalytic view of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Walton develops, during a “dreadfully severe” trip through the Arctic, a type of schizophrenia; this mental condition enables him to create a seemingly physical being representing each his superego and his id (9). In his mind, Walton creates Victor as his very own superego and the monster as his id. The superego and the id battle throughout the story to produce the final result: Walton, the …showed first 75 words of 1225 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1225 total…of the dangers of intellectual solitude. Shelley warns us throughout this novel not to let the worst of things get the best of us.
Works Cited
Bettelheim, Bruno. Freud & Man’s Soul. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1982.
Dow, Merrell. “Understanding and Responding to Symptoms of Schizophrenia.” http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year2/schizophrenia/symptoms.htm
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1993.
Weiss, Joseph. How Psychotherapy Works. New York: The Guilford Press, 1993.
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