The expansion of vanity of Simon in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Hamid Farahmandian¹  Chaojian Liu² 

[1] School of Foreign Languages, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China;School of International Communications & Education, Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China;

关键词: James Joyce;    Karen Horney;    neurosis 4;    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;    vanity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1187171

 received in 2023-03-15, accepted in 2023-05-05,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

An aggressive personality is a distorted personality with dark traits such as arrogance, a sense of power over others, and exploitation. As per Karen Horney's theory of neurosis, all these traits make an individual, psychologically, neurotic, who is willing to go against other people in society. In this paper, drawing upon Horney's theory, I study the aggressive personality of Simon in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from three aspects of frustrated selfishness, sense of dominance, and search for respect to make known his neurotic needs for power, admiration, prestige, exploitation and achievement and demonstrate that offensive conducts of Simon make him more insecure and leave him more aggressive toward everybody at home and society.

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