The Turning of the Screw summary

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He writes, “What does the act of turning a screw have to do with literature? What does the act of turning a screw have to do with psychoanalysis? Are these two questions related?” (Felman 106). Felman does this to provoke the mind of the readers on issues of madness and sexuality as stated in James’s tale. This is essential as it is meant to allow the readers to have an open mind about what is depicted in the book could be representing. Based on the first two chapters titled “An uncanny reading effect and What is a Freudian Reading,” the author dramatically elucidates the literature to enable the readers to gain a picture of what original text was all about. The author goes ahead to make use of technical techniques of writing her views about her stand of what she thought about the book she is analyzing.

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In most passages from the first two chapters, the author enables the readers to take prominence as the main subjects. The author indicates that the reader may be easily turned by the text. This simply indicates that the text is responsible for the action of turning which goes to show the magnitude of the role played by it. Additionally, this also indicates that the reader is outweighed by the text as subjects. The use of readers and text as the main subjects in the book plays a critical role both psychoanalytically and grammatically (as the main subject in the sentence as well as an unconscious object). The author does this by stating, “the theory is, then, that the governess who is made to tell the story is a neurotic case of sex repression, and that the ghosts re not real ghosts but hallucinations of governess” (Felman 103).

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