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A 4 page paper which examines the relationship between father and son in William Faulkner’s Barn Burning from a Freudian perspective. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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dysfunctional one, but also a very real one as the father insists that the son is a part of him and must remain loyal to his blood, as a son.
The son, however, wishes to be a man on his own, understanding that what his father does is not good or moral or legal. The following paper examines the relationship
between father and son from a Freudian perspective. Barn Burning and Freud Sigmund Freud was a man who has some serious issues with a father relationship as it
pertained to his own problems with his father and his fathers death. He is also a man known for his Oedipus theory wherein a young man ultimately wants to sexually
possess his own mother. In this particular story the focus will be in relationship to the son attempting to divide himself from his father as it applies to Freud.
In Barn Burning the father is a very strict and cruel man that the son cannot seem to emulate. There is something in the boys nature that pulls him away
from following the cruel and criminal path that is pursued by his father. While most readers, outside of a Freudian lens, would see this story as one of identity and
coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himself as part of his father. This
is seen in the symbolic use of blood in the test. For example, in the very beginning, when the boy is being questioned by the law, the narrator states how
the boy is experiencing the situation: "the smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood" (Faulkner). This fierce
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