Denial And Repression In A Rose For Emily

Psychoanalytic theory focuses on how a people see themselves. According to this theory, humans are effected by our unconscious; which are generally feelings, thoughts, and desires that our conscious represses our psychoanalytic theory comes from what happens in our early childhood. This concept is evident in the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” where Emilys father passes away and she has a hard time dealing with it which causes her to fall il. Her father controlled emily most of her life, but she never questioned it. Her being an old women, she fell in love with Homer Barron, a guy that paves the sidewalks. However, he is lower class then her. The theme of pycoanalytic theory in through denial and repression is present in “A Rose for Emily.” The evidence is shown when her father died and she acted like it didnt happen, and when she accepted it she acted ok and repressed her emotions.

She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. “This shows that she wasnt coming to except that her father did pass away, and she denied it; eventhough they had his body as evidence and people were coming to show their condolences. They had almost had to take legal action to in order to bury the body, but then she accepted it and buried him as soon as possible. She shows repression when people were whispering about her,