Desire, Repression, and the Unconscious: A Freudian Reading of Rooney’s Novel Normal People
This paper examines Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018) through Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic concepts of the id, ego, superego, repression, anxiety, and unconscious desire. The novel follows Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron from secondary school in rural Ireland to university in Dublin, portraying a relationship...