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Don Quixote: Freud and Cervantes.
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|January 1, 1984
Summary
Alonso Quijano
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Literary Analysis
Background:
- Examines Alonso Quijano's transformation into Don Quixote.
- Focuses on psychological disturbances and developmental evolution.
Purpose of the Study:
- Analyze the psychological journey from disturbance to humility.
- Explore the resolution of narcissistic and psychotic phases.
Main Methods:
- Psychoanalytic literary criticism.
- Analysis of character development and internal conflicts.
Main Results:
- Quixote's travels serve as a 'cure' for grandiose narcissism through humiliation.
- The character works through depressive and schizo-paranoid phases before death.
Conclusions:
- The transformation reflects unresolved Oedipal conflicts and a need for reparation.
- Cervantes uses humor and tragedy to depict a hero's regression and confrontation with reality.