A Freudian Analysis of "Brokeback Mountain"

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The fact that Brokeback Mountain was critically acclaimed in all platforms it was put into, there must be something deep within this literary masterpiece that made Annie Proulx a distinct name in the twenty-first century American literature.

METHODS

The qualitative research method was employed. Documents, memos, and other pieces of written information were reviewed to arrive at an adequate Freudian criticism of the work.

RESULTS

In a work that depicts how complicated and tragic gay life may be such as Brokeback, psychoanalysis could always provide a plausible account. Critics of psychoanalytic theory might have argued about its lackof parsimony, the case study method Freud used, its poor definitions, its untestability, and its sexism, but current researches on biological and cognitive psychology have shown that Freud's principles can be proven empirically.

DISCUSSIONS

Proulx is a Freud reader. She had Freudian precepts in mind while she was scribbling Ennis' and Jack's story. She is also a geographic determinist writer of fiction, believing that regional landscapes, climate, and topography dictate local cultural traditions and kindsof work, and thereby the events on which her stories are built, bold in putting the tragedies of emotional deprivation on the front row.