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4 pages in length. While The Last Emperor is replete with cultural and visual splendor that serves to illustrate the complexities inherent to Chinese heritage and the unchallenged dedication therein, it is just as overflowing with psychological underpinnings that demonstrate the overwhelming compromises people are forced to make in the name of tradition. Examining Pu Yi and the struggles he faces in the midst of emotional deprivation finds the psychological theories of Winnicott's transitional object and Freud's ego standing out as two of the most significant throughout the story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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underpinnings that demonstrate the overwhelming compromises people are forced to make in the name of tradition. As Sklarew points out, cultural context is the key to whether one sees
"the pathos of a young child cruelly robbed of his childhood or the brave sacrifices of a family for larger social purposes" (Sklarew 85). Examining Pu Yi and the
struggles he faces in the midst of emotional deprivation finds the psychological theories of Winnicotts transitional object and Freuds ego standing out as two of the most significant throughout the
story. Sklarew points toward a significant connection between Winnicotts "transitional object" and the reason why Pu Yi thrust his pet mouse to its
death. Parenting, according to Winnicotts theory, represents absolutely everything essential to a childs ability to grow into a "healthy, genuine self, as opposed to a false self" (D. W.
Winnicott). The mothers influence is particularly pertinent to this concept, inasmuch as she must possess the ability to relate to her child in such a way that supports "primary
maternal preoccupation" (D. W. Winnicott); in other words, she must completely give of herself to her child in order for the infant to "develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which
will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi is forcibly stripped from his mothers emotional nurturing, the young emperor is compelled to seek
out a replacement. This absolute resignation to the childs needs represents the psychic space inherent to the mother/infant relationship and, according to Winnicott,
is a combination of both psychological and physical elements that together form what he terms the "holding environment," a conceptualization where the child ultimately learns to be more self-sufficient.
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