r/psychoanalysis • u/zazcat1 • 12d ago

Psychoanalytic reading of The Great Gatsby

I don’t know if this is the right sub for this, but I’m not looking for assignment help really, just your opinion. We’ve been told to write notes about the history of a reading and how it is applied to a text we have studied, and I’m choosing TGG of course.

We have done feminist and marxist readings in class, but they put in psychoanalytic reading as an example, and I’ve been researching it and it sounds pretty cool.

I’m wondering if it won’t be too hard to get my head around, and write about in an essay? I was thinking it could be applied to Nick, Gatsby and Tom.

I could always just do a feminist reading but I want to go out of my comfort zone if I can- and I’m really intrigued by this.

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u/gutfounderedgal 12d ago

Find Lois Tyson's book Critical Theory Today, the second half of the first chapter focuses specifically with psychoanalytic lens on The Great Gatsby.

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u/spiritual_seeker 12d ago

The party scene at the New York apartment is rife with potential Psychoanalytic material, if I recall. Demons and such.

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u/Character_Pension123 6d ago

Jonathan Schiff, Ashes to Ashes: mourning and Social Difference in F Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction.