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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been": Defense Mechanisms
Aaron G
The story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce
Carol Oates is truly littered with conventions of Psychoanalysis. Freud
developed a list of defense mechanisms used by the human subconscious in
order to deal with issues too intense for the conscious mind. These
strategies of the psyche are translated into symbols scattered throughout
this work. These symbols are expressed through the characters of Connie,
and Arnold Friend.
The first convention is denial. Denial is when the subconscious
cannot handle an issue or event and forces the individual to falsify
reality and flatly refuse to accept it. Denia ....
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