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- Title
A Freudian Reading of Amory's Personal Development in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise.
- Authors
Bozer, A. Deniz
- Abstract
F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) is not only an explicitly autobiographical narrative replete with characters that can be traced back to real people from Fitzgerald's own life, but also a colorful account of the 1920s American youth. The novel was highly popular for its realistic and lively representation of the Jazz Age which was marked for its hedonism. The protagonist of the novel, the romantic egotist Amory, who is Fitzgerald's fictional self, is a conceited young man who enjoys a flamboyant lifestyle along with many other well-to-do members of his generation. Amory, the hedonist, considers pleasure as the most important good and seeks to maximize this pleasure. Following the publication of Freud's work "On Narcissism" in 1915, the 1920s is also significant as it witnesses the flourishing of this prominent scientist's views on psychoanalysis and the publication of his works "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920) and "The Ego and the Id" (1923). Thus, the self-absorbed Amory's quest for pleasure can be read as an act in accordance with Freud's Pleasure Principle which is the driving force behind the id. Drawing additionally on Freud's views on narcissism and his tripartite theory of the psyche, this paper aims at discussing the psychosexual development of Amory from early childhood into his early twenties.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FITZGERALD, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940; THIS Side of Paradise (Book : Fitzgerald); YOUTH
- Publication
Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), 2016, Vol 45, p7
- ISSN
1300-6606
- Publication type
Article