Open AccessHilda Doolittle as a Myth-Maker: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of Hilda Doolittle’s “Sea Violet” and “Sea Gods”
Author(s) -
Marwa Bilal Hameed,
Saad Najim Al-Khafaji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in social sciences and humanities(online)/international journal of research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4671
pISSN - 2249-4642
DOI - 10.37648/ijrssh.v11i02.022
Subject(s) - mythology , psychoanalytic theory , argument (complex analysis) , identity (music) , gender studies , sociology , psychoanalysis , femininity , literature , philosophy , psychology , art , aesthetics , biochemistry , chemistry
Patriarchal societies degrade females because of what they think of as a biological deficiencythat is represented through the lack of the male sexual organ. This leads such societies tooppress females mentally as well as physically. This encourages a number of writers toindulge themselves in studying the psychological abnormality that the patriarchal societieslead the females to suffer from. Thus, by adopting the psychoanalytical feminist view, HildaDoolittle aims to heal the female race from the patriarchal wounds that leads them to losetheir identity as independent human beings. Accordingly, this paper aims at investigating howDoolittle does this by depending on the Greek gods and goddesses as examples that couldhelp her in supporting her argument that femininity has been defined falsely according to anunjust patriarchal canon