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Hysteria In The Magic Toyshop

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Hysteria in The Magic Toyshop

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter has many intense and strange characters. One could come up with many problems that each character faces but I will focus on Margret and what could be considered, her hysterical behaviours. Conversion hysteria is when a repressed psychological symptom becomes converted into a physical or behavioural symptom. In On Psychotherapy of Hysteria, Freud explained repression as the ego’s effort to keep bad thoughts and impulses out of one’s awareness and that it can be used as a way to not dealing with or avoiding something. Margret’s hysteria would have been caused by her relationship with her husband. When the reader first learns about her, her brother explains that; “Not …show more content…

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