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Alfred Pr
Psychoanalysis of T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
The Fundamentals of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: Austrian psychologist/neurologist. Established the idea that the subconscious
mind assists in how one perceives the world around them.
Personal neurotic crisis, observations of patients, and extended research assisted in the
development of the idea that our suppressed desires/thoughts/fears subconsciously affect us.
"Ego": the rational portion of the mind that regulates an individual’s desires and filters them for
social acceptance.
"Id" : the deep subconscious, houses the seemingly irrational thought process.
"Superego" : the filtration system within the psyche that assists an individual in gaining an
understanding of social cues.
Free Association
Freud introduced the method of free association (“A spontaneous, logically unconstrained and
undirected association of ideas, emotions, and feelings”)
"The fundamental technical rule of analysis," patients openly discussed their repressed thoughts in
a professional practice setting.
The subconscious's concealed thoughts/fears/desires came out in the form of dreams or writings.
The inability for this speaker to connect emotionally serves as a reflection of Eliot's inability to
develop emotional connections in his own life.
During his marriage with his first wife(1915), Vivienne Haigh-Wood, he took a vow of chastity
(1928).
Had two other lovers, Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan, extreme limited intimacy.
Amplification of historical male figures over non-descriptive female figures displays his inner
unfamiliarity of emotional connections with women, where he deconstructs them to externally
focused characterizations ("arms that are braceleted and white"/"perfume from a dress").
He discusses and shifts between various images (a crab, a bug pinned on a wall), trapped and
unable to move forward.