FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
BAD RELATIONSHIPS
FATHER
MOTHER
Umberto Saba
His mother was abanodned by his father before the birth. Once born, Saba was sent to a nunny, who he considered like a mother.When his real mother came back to pick him and take him away, he was shocked.
Mother unconcerned-->cause neurosis in Saba
La casa di Bernarda Alba
The mother represents the regressive and patriarchal Spain of that time.
Relationship between a tyrant mother and eight daughters who want more freedom.
Sylvia Plath
La coscienza di Zeno
Her father was a nazi soldier, and she really hated him for that.
With her poem Daddy , Sylvia Plath tells us her feelings towards her dad and his death.
Franz Kafka
The protagonist of Svevo's novel La coscienza di Zeno, throughout his life, he never managed to have a strong relationship with his father, that looked at his son as a deadbeat and a good-for-nothing.
Oedipus complex
Conflictual relationship with his authoritarian father.
Letter to his father
Unconscious desire of a child for the opposite-sex parent, and hatred for the same-sex parent.
GOOD RELATIONSHIPS
MOTHER
La coscienza di Zeno
FATHER and MOTHER
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf grew up in an aristocratic family, thanks to that her education take place in the home. The death of her mother and the disappearance of his father, these mourning, are the cause of depression in Virginia Woolf.
The death of her parents lead her to commit suicide.
His mother was jewish, for this reasons they had to run away from Trieste to Florence because of the racial laws.
Fascism
Racism
Self-analysis and the evidence that represent the crisis of an hicritally judgemental world.