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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been": Defense Mechanisms
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Aaron G
The story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce
Carol Oates is truly littered with conventions of Psychoanalysis. Freud
developed a list of defense mechanisms used by the human subconscious in
order to deal with issues too intense for the conscious mind. These
strategies o ....
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....ntion at home that causes her to
seek it through the only other outlet she understands at the that age...her
sexuality. Obviously, the group that is most receptive to this is boys.
Her desire to be accepted causes her to repress her initial feelings of
fear and uneasiness she experiences in the early minutes of her meeting
with Arnold, which ultimately proves to be her downfall.
There is also a prime example of displacement in the very first
paragraphs of this tale of goulish nature. Displace.... |
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