Freudian criticism Flashcards
1
Q
electra complex
A
daughter’s sexual feelings towards her father
2
Q
Nora and electra complex
A
Torvald’s body language and nicknames for Nora are parentlike, which Nora doesn’t object to
she went straight from her father’s house into Torvald’s
3
Q
when Torvald is threatened
A
at the end of the play, his unconscious becomes his conscious mind through a Freudian slip
“your family’s flimsy values have come out in you”
4
Q
Nora has never had
A
a chance to develop her “ego arsenal” and says she has “to try to educate myself (…) I’ve got to do it alone”
5
Q
Nora needs to progress
A
from an unhealthy Oedipal complex of sorts and needs to develop into a more nature stage of adult psychosexuality
