Electra Complex in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
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This paper argues that Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night (1623) are driven by their unconscious desire to possess their brothers who serve as father-figures for them. By applying Carl Jung's theory of Electra Complex and a related Freudian theory of penis envy, I will seek to make a study of the phallic and the post-Oedipal stages in the psychosexual development of the two female characters, Viola and Olivia. The triangle of daughter, father (or father-figure) and mother (or mother-figure) will be discussed in the cases of both the girls. The paper will further prove that the two girls are possessed by an acute desire to replace and imitate their mothers by first idealizing the father-figures, and then by replacing the wish for their own fathers (or the father-figures) with the wish to emulate their mothers by possessing an ideal father, and having a child.
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