Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy': Identities, Selves and Others: HOW LOVE KILLS US ALL
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2020
- The Poem 'Daddy' (her most confessional poem) was written by Sylvia Plath just four months before she committed suicide in her London home in February 1963. She was just 30 years old. It explores Identities, Selves and Others and how they create and destroy one another. In a 1962 BBC interview she describes it as one girl’s confrontation with the unresolved Electra complex manifested in the wake of her fathers untimely death.
The term ‘Electra Complex' is taken from Greek Mythology, where the princess Electra plots the killing of her own mother, the Queen Clytemnestra, who is responsible for the murder of her father, Agamemnon after his return from the Trojan War.
In his 'Theory of Psychoanalysis' Carl Jung proposes the theory of The Electra complex to elucidate the state of affairs when young girls compete for the ownership and affections of their fathers in competition with their mothers - and when this natural development is somehow thwarted.
In a young girls psychosexual development, according to this theory, there are several natural stages that she must experience to attain 'Individuation'. When this natural development (with the father figure central to it) is dashed, the Electra complex manifests with all its trappings of neuroses - emotional and psychological maladjustments and traumas.
In modern verbiage, we refer to this as ‘Daddy Issues’, but that is to make light of a potentially, deeply traumatic reality which is liable to effect her very sense of self.
This early death of her father was probably Sylvia's greatest trauma and haunted her throughout her life.
The poem 'Daddy' was both the Climax and the Denouement to this pain of unbearable proportions.
The controversial-ised figure of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath's husband has been largely left out of this essay since, in terms of her inner-workings and for the purposes of this essay, Hughes is taken to be a Psychological extension of her Father, Otto Plath.
The line: 'the Vampire who said he was you' (in reference to Ted Hughes) was probably suggested to Sylvia Plath by her Entomologist Father, Otto Plath's study and work on parasitic Muscid Larvae of the San Francisco Bay region which suck the blood of nesting birds.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Ariel by Sylvia Plath: (includes the Poem 'Daddy'): Faber Modern Classics (Faber Poetry): amzn.to/33BxrRI
The Colossus By Sylvia Plath: (Faber Poetry): amzn.to/3iICfJn
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: (her only novel): (Faber & Faber): amzn.to/36D8sPS
The Journals of Sylvia Plath: amzn.to/36DxH4y
A Collection of the Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956: amzn.to/33zv1mn
A Collection of the Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963: amzn.to/3jBfLLs
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath: amzn.to/36AvmHx
The Theory of Psychoanalysis (for an introduction to the Electra complex), by Carl Gustav Jung: amzn.to/2Ssemei
The Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud (for an Introduction to the Oedipus complex - the forerunner to the Electra complex): (Vintage Classics): amzn.to/3d1kZxs
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I'm Spanish speaker and I'm crying hearing the poem in her's voice. De sounds, the repited sounds, the cacophonous sounds feels so profound, so deep, so childish, so primordial, so heartbreaking. Thanks for the video
You're very welcome Fernando. Thank you...
When you said she wanted to dig up his bones, that hit me hard. My fiance died 2 years ago; I had him cremated. I knew I'd never stop trying to dig him up and see if he was alive or dead.
He lives in you now...
It is a little bit stupid to say this, but i cried while she read the poem. I always always deeply loved "daddy" and all the parallels she drew but your analysis gave me deeper understanding of some cryptic chosen phrases. thank you
Hi Linda. Linda ‘Ariel’ in fact. It’s not stupid to cry at all. I’m glad you liked it… Thank You for your kind words.
The quality of your work is extraordinary. Your choice of music, editing of images and the marriage of the two. I would appreciate biographical info on you and your work in literature. Wonderful work.
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I agree, these videos are well researched but also really captivating.
I cried at the end...I’m not through yet but I am letting go. Your video is beautiful and to the point, thank you.
Thank 'You' Salomé... I'm glad it moved you. Please do stay connected and share if you like...
Thanks again, it means a lot to me.
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i would love to see more sylvia poems analyzed
I read this poem and was honestly clueless of who or what this poem was trying to talk about, perhaps because im not really a marinated reader or a writer, but after watching this video i almost felt the pain and anger and helplessness in her words!
Sobbing over this video. Making me feel things I haven’t in a long time. Thank you for such a beautiful analysis.
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The 'Electra Complex' is the opposite of the 'Oedipus Complex'.
Sylvia Plath was an incredible poetess and it boggles the mind to imagine what brilliant future works she could have created.
Ted Hughes, on the other hand, is a complete monster!
Having one wife take her own life happens, but having your next wife, the one you were having an affair with during the previous marriage, takes her life and the life of your child with her in the same fashion as the former Mrs. Hughes, what other word could describe such a person?
It is just poet, she was a poet.
And these complexes don't exist. If a child has those kinds of ideas about their parents they should seek help.
Where do you think the terms "Oedipus complex" and "Electra complex" came from??!!
Psychotherapy.
Ever wondered why so many couples call each other 'daddy' and 'mommy' ?
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Mostly because they have children together. 🙄
I'm sorry to say, that couldn't be further from the mark. Ok, here's another way in: How do you think, instincts are formed? How do they become instincts?
What a painfully beautiful poem
It really is J. Thank You for listening. Take care and have great weekend. ♥️
She suffered so much, what happened to her was very horrible...I wonder how her husband managed to sleep with a clear conscience.
i love your channel, I'm a teenager and I love this type of video. 🤞🏻💗
especially after burning some of her diaries like wtf dude
Anyone who knows anyone who did what she did knows that no man, no woman, no nothing caused her death but what was within her, and that what she had tried to do before, she would try again, and eventually succeed no matter the transgressions against her, or no transgressions at all, and those she leaves behind--they leave behind--those left behind cannot sleep, no, they cannot sleep, though they cannot speak of their sleeplessness, of black sleep, dreams wiped to save the conscious mind from breaking, no, even those at the greatest distance from her--them--in geography, or friendship or family--anyone at any distance from anyone who did what she did, blames themselves because blame is not a thought, a set of reasons, but a feeling that never goes away. Ramble, ramble, say I'm rambling, but I know, I know what I should not know, but maybe I should just have said from the outset what one of them once said, "Oh, well, whatever, never mind."
I'm sorry if you suffered this loss yourself :( @@ejtattersall156
Hughes was a total narcissist - he was with and coldly dumped two women who died by their own hands after (Sylvia and the mistress Hughes left her for initially until he tired of her as well - she was destroyed by grief)
@@kayladenette5872 Ted destroyed her last journal. He says another went missing when her mother visited him.
This is the most in depth consideration of Sylvia Path I have seen. Thnaks!
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I get the impression that she would have lived, had her father not died. He was probably the only person she felt a connect with.
I get the same impression too, Swannoir...
Keep up the good work! Again, what an honour to have my music featured in your video.
MX Chan The honour is all mine. Excellently played Maestro!
It’s so painful to read. I ‘d be afraid to touch the page it’s written on.... Excellent video.
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Just found this wonderful channel! As a writer I could only wish to have somebody so perfectly analyze and love my poems. Greetings from Uruguay
Sylvia was such a radiantly beautiful and brilliant young woman - it breaks my heart that she ever met Ted the monster.
Brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for this!
Thank You Tara_mon. I’m glad it moved you. Have a great weekend.
Listened to this as a preparation for my upcoming poetry test on Tuesday and it was incredible. Thank you so much for this amazing video! :)
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I had goosebumps towards the end.
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Excellent and oh so terrible. I was still watching even after I closed my eyes.
Your explanation helped me a lot ...love Sylvia Plath so much♥️
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I loved this, love the poetry.
Felt so emotional 💛
This was excellent. Thank you
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I am sobbing
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I hope it helps.
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Well done, but music is distracting. Also, you don’t talk about the part where she recreates the primal trauma with her husband who has left her for another woman.
Precisely
Electra complex is not the same as daddy issues?? Sylvia was not attracted to her father nor did she feel to compete with her mother. The term is a disgusting way of "psychoanalysing" a woman grieving.
Funny, how the title of this video correlates with dictums of jyotish, vedic astrology, where it is stated many times that Shukra (Venus) is a a powerful Maraka ( literally:killer).
Venus is governing attachments like love for a a person. In a horoscope the 2. House represents family and the 7. House is union like marriage both of which are naturally governed by Venus.
Amazing!👌🏼
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My baby girl was born three days ago. Lord willing, she doesn't have to make a nazi out of me in order poetically to murder me in thirty years.
Lord Willing.
Please do more of Sylvia Plath's poems
im crying
If u look up her husband Ted & his mistress & their daughter age 4 died the same way. I don’t know but something fishy going on
He seems to have been attracted to dysfunctional women. "His mistress" was married. They had an on/off relationship for years. She didn't even know who the father of her child was.
I think we should read the work rather than assume the author’s perspective is correct…it is a reading of the title more than anything else
Agreed
Poor girl.
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Slyvia Plath biggest influencer is Emily Dickinson & both of them are my Favorite.
Thanks Fcc Off. 😁 What’s your favourite Emily Dickinson novel, just out of curiosity?
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Ne saçmalıyosun
Complex is Freud not Jung
Hi. The Oedipus complex is Freud. The Electra complex is Jung.
@@TheWrittenWorldSubscribeNow Fraudulent Freud was a freemason/satanist like most prominent figures in this satanic matrix!
Psychoanalysis was a theory by Sigmund Freud not Carl Jung..!!
They were of the same time….in my opinion Jung was more advanced that Freud in many levels
Jung and Freud were attempting the Same Thing, in Different Ways.
Ummm……what was she diagnosed with? That poem is weird
This kind of reminds us all of how the Germans were used by Hitler
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How does anyone stand watching this, with this dreadful music in the background?
Hi Sherri. You'd have to ask my audience. Thanks for sharing though. Have a great day.
@@TheWrittenWorldSubscribeNow Their poor ears must be bleeding.
@@Godisfirst21 Maybe. Great works are conceived in blood and sweat. Merci…
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@@Godisfirst21 You too Sherri. And Merry Christmas…