YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

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The Unconciousness of our Concious minds.

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Displacement

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"Young Goodman Brown"

Balqis Yasmin Binti Budiman (4213002081)

Varsini Krishnamoorthy (4213002111)

Muhammad Haikal Bin Mohd Ismail (4213003541)

Faridah Syahira Binti Mohd Din (4213000111)

Aiman Harris (4213005701)

"Lo, there ye stand, my children,” said the figure,

in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. “Depending upon one another’s hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness.

Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.”

Psychoanalysis

Theory

Conscious: Ego

the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world

The ego functions in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.

The ego is the personality component responsible for dealing with reality.

Goodman Brown himself represents the Ego in the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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WHEN MR GOODMAN BROWN WENT TO EMBARK ON HIS JOURNEY TO THE FOREST, replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and sunrise (Example 1)

GOODMAN REFUSED TO TAKE THE SNAKE STAFF DUE TO HIS EGO AND BELIEFS "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. (Example 2)

EGO DICTATES HIS ACTIONS AS HE REFUSES TO ENGAGE IN THE ACTIVITIES THAT CAN CAUSE REGRETS "I marvel they never spoke of these matters. Or, verily, I marvel not, seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness." (Example 3)

Pre-conscious: Super Ego

The meaning of Superego brings the meaning which is based on morals and judgments of good and evil. The superego based its reasoning more on moral principles than the ego, which rests its conclusion more on what other people will think or the possible ramifications of action on the individual. In the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown, himself learns to balance the conflict between his superego and his desires and recognizes his fault.

The devil continuously convinces Goodman Brown to go to a witches' Sabbath and to violate his morals and values. As Goodman Brown witnesses the corruption and hypocrisy of his town people, he becomes more angered and conflicted. Come, Goodman Brown!" cried his fellow-traveller, "this is a dull pace for the beginning of a journey. (Example 1)

Goodman Brown sees his wife Faith among the witches and realizes that he too has succumbed to temptation. He cries out in despair,"There is my wife, Faith. It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own!" (Example 2)

Brown now understands that he has compromised his superego and given to his darkest instincts. Overwhelmed by regret and humiliation, he finds it impossible to justify his acts with his pre-existing convictions. (Example 3 - explanation of superego by Goodman Brown)

Unconscious: Id

Id is the unconscious and instinctual part of the mind where it strives for pleasure and desire
No regard for the ethics, moral constraint and consequences
The forest represents the Id in the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Goodman Brown went into the forest for his "errand" leaving his wife of 3 months alone at home following his desire to go into the forest. With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose (Example 1)

Goodman Brown continues his journey into the forest after taking a rest by the roadside with the staff in hand. The young man sat a few moments by the road-side, applauding himself greatly, and thinking with how clear a conscience he should meet the minister, in his morning-walk, nor shrink from the eye of good old Deacon Gookin (Example 2)

Goodman Brown went deeper into the forest distraught in misery while laughing out loud and holding the serpent staff. And maddened with despair, so that he laughed loud and long, did Goodman Brown grasp his staff and set forth again, at such a rate, that he seemed to fly along the forestpath, rather than to walk or run (Example 3)

Displacement

According to theory, Displacement is viewed as a form of dream-distortion.

Displacement is considered to be a defense mechanism, feelings interconnected with one person are displaced onto another person.

Example: A individual with hostile intent projecting on a less threatening target (or individual).

"Too far, too far!" exclaimed the goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. And shall I be the first of the name of Brown, that ever took this path and kept--" (Example 1)

Goodman Brown, or he recognized a score of the church-members of Salem village, famous for their especial sanctity. Good old Deacon Gookin had arrived, and waited at the skirts of that venerable saint, his reverend pastor. But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see, that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. (Example 2)

Condensation according to Freud is the result of two or more incidents condensed.

Two images overlaid onto one another, multiple meanings, concepts or emotions into one image or even symbol.

Example: A individual in a dream may fuse their feelings towards several people or combine different emotional impulses.

Condensation

"Well said, Goodman Brown! I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; and that's no trifle to say. I helped your grandfather, theconstable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. And it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's War. They were my good friends, both; andmany a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and returned merrily after midnight. I would fain be friends with you, for their sake." (Example 1)

Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grand-children, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom. (Example 2)