Measure - Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Berry

Answer 1

We have it on Freud’s authority that beheading occurs frequently in dreams as a substitute for castration; it is a psychoanalytic commonplace.”

Berry argues that the beheading of Claudio serves as an explicit punishment for the sexual act, symbolizing the state’s attempt to control and suppress sexuality. He also notes that the play’s bawdy characters, like Pompey, contribute to this theme by making explicit references to castration

Question 2

Wheeler

Answer 2

‘dukes fear of sexuality is channeled into a generalized death wish’

Tendency for self destruction/that of others

A05 – Thanatos, as introduced by Freud, represents an unconscious drive toward death, destruction, and a return to an inorganic state,

death drive as abdicates from personal responsiblityy. Self desertion of the state, and uses further destruction as means of control

Question 3

Bloom

Answer 3

Isabella as a ‘muse of psychonalsysis’
as a mascohstic counterpart to Angelo
who shares ‘du sades fusion of sexual and spiritual authority’

Question 4

Brown

Answer 4

Bed trick led by ‘vicarious pleasure’ and motivations ‘sexually charged below the self consousness’

Question 5

Schumman

Answer 5

Duke embodies freuds ideas on Freud’s theories on voyeurism, or scopophilia, suggest it stems from a fundamental, innate pleasure in looking.

‘Goes voyerstically fishing for sexual detials under the guise of pentinial instruction’
=reflection of own repression