Phychoanalytic Lens

 The lens I chose is the psychoanalytic lens. I chose this lens because I wanted to focus on the characters’ thoughts and emotions. During the time of slavery many good people were oppressed. These people were mainly african american. I look forward to analysing the characters in this book. Shethe seems like she has a lot of emotional trauma, as well as the people around her. Being a slave for many years, Sethe can never forget the harsh treatment and abuse she faced. Now she is cursed with a disease that i believe is PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder. This causes her to have constant flashbacks whenever she is reminded of something that resembles Sweet Home. Now, Sethe has to deal with the haunting of her dead child, which I am interested in knowing if this has to do with her terrible mental state or if she is actually in contact with her child.  This trauma might even cause her to make bad decisions. Many people shouldn't promises when they're happy and bad decisions when they're sad, according to Bob Marley. Sethe's sadness might cause her to be blind to logic: she doesn't know where she is going In life but she does know that she needs to provide for the only family she has: Sethe. She may be hallucinating the entire thing. Overall, I am very excited to be able to read this text through a Psychoanalytic Lens, because Psychology is something I find very interesting! I think psychoanalysis is really cool because it lets me understands the characters. Psychoanalysis also allows us to see why characters act the way they do. Reading other books allows me to see why characters act and think certain ways, without seeing or reading their actions directly. The psychoanalytical lens allows us to use historical context to understand the actions of characters. In what I read so far in Beloved, I saw that sethe is really broken internally.