Reclaiming the forgotten child
Children’s literature is littered with adult fingerprints. This paper examines how adults read and write children's literature as escapist fantasy and as a projection of their repressed impulses. By using psychoanalytic theories, we are able to understand how the unconscious manifests in childr...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-628632019-12-10T11:38:32Z Reclaiming the forgotten child Raudha Zaini Daniel Keith Jernigan School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English Children’s literature is littered with adult fingerprints. This paper examines how adults read and write children's literature as escapist fantasy and as a projection of their repressed impulses. By using psychoanalytic theories, we are able to understand how the unconscious manifests in children's books. The forgotten self is the notion that adult identity is inevitably fragmented and reclamation of the child self is necessary in self-preservation. Bachelor of Arts 2015-04-30T03:55:58Z 2015-04-30T03:55:58Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62863 en Nanyang Technological University 34 p. application/pdf |
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Children’s literature is littered with adult fingerprints. This paper examines how adults read and write children's literature as escapist fantasy and as a projection of their repressed impulses. By using psychoanalytic theories, we are able to understand how the unconscious manifests in children's books. The forgotten self is the notion that adult identity is inevitably fragmented and reclamation of the child self is necessary in self-preservation. |
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