Keywords
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, Freud, uncanny, double, repression, Lacan, feminist, Gilbert & Gubar
Abstract
The paper aims to examine the perspectives from which a psychoanalytic critic and a feminist critic might analyze Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market. A psychoanalytic critic might incorporate the concepts of uncanny, double and repression as well as Lacan’s stages of development. On the other hand, a feminist critic might analyze the poem on the basis of essentialist and constructionist perspectives of feminist literary discussions, Gilbert & Gubar’s concepts of binary opposition of angel/monster and of anxiety of authorship. The main finding of the paper is that most of the points of interest of criticism of the poem may be the same for a psychoanalytic critic and a feminist critic, the interpretations of the two critics are contrastive owing to their different interpretive framework.
