Psychoanalysis of Mann's “Death in Venice” From a Freudian Point of View: Gustav Von Aschenbach's Pedophilic and Homosexual Desire for Tadeuz

Introduction

Sigmund Freud was a famous neurologist Austrian psychiatrist and writer. His theories have greatly influenced the psychological and literary of the first thirty years of the twentieth century currents. He published numerous reports and books in which he presented his doctrines spread his reputation throughout the civilized world. His analytical method is based on the investigation of subconscious psychic phenomena.

According to Freud's theories, center of all the physical and mental activities is on the exchange of energy. According to Freud, this energy is derived from the libido, which is the center for generating and releasing this energy. It depends on the mental state and influence of the two forces catharsis and anti-catharsis. These forces play a vital role in developing transfer of energy and generating responses in a person, which also results in creating homosexual desires. In his essays and letters, he clearly identified and discussed problems with unfocused sexual libidinal drives, which lead to the heterosexual or homosexual desires. These theories and letters assist in understanding the Gustav Von Aschenbach's Pedophilic and Homosexual Desire for Tadeuz. Gustav Von Aschenbach is an aged and weary composer, who discovers amid the decadent Venetian beauty, attractiveness of an angelic teen spontaneous.

Gustav Von Aschenbach's Pedophilic and Homosexual Desire for Tadeuz

Fraueds theories of homosexuality and his point of view assit in uunderstanding the concept of homosexuality in Thomas Mann's novella, “Death in Venice”. In this novella, Mann presented a complex homosexual desire in a man Gustav Von Aschenbach, for a young boy Tadeusz. This novella assist in identifying different aspecst of Freaudian theory of homoisexuaklity through Gustav Von Aschenbach's Pedophilic and Homosexual Desire for Tadeuz. In Death in Venice solitary writer Gustav Aschenbach is moved by the beauty of a Polish youngster on a hotel in the Italian city. Commonly spoken in the book of Mann as the story of a man higher (the protagonist, Aschenbach, is fifty years old) who falls for a boy (a teenager anyway). The delicacy of the exposure and the warp of thoughts and desires of Aschenbach put us in front of a work whose greatness lies in the way, renouncing all vulgarity, a world that is built especially.

The presence of homosexual love and the extraordinarily sensitive expose mode makes it one of the most enduring works of the author. Death in Venice as the Mann himself maintained, is the loss of dignity of the artist, but Mann also examines the relationship between art and life. The disordered emotions and indomitable passion Tadzio-Dionysus inspires him, force him to admit that this belief is a fallacy. The mythical elements of the novel provide the context necessary to draw a portrait of homosexuality. Written with subtlety and sublimlity with a deep psychological insight, this book is a vivid account of what it means to love. Sublime does not mean avoiding physical contact to create a sublime object, the artwork, ...