Seeing that Mr. Ramsay is upset, Mrs. Ramsay won’t interrupt him but “She stroked James’s head; she transferred to him what she felt for her husband.” This perhaps unintentional reference to transference can be associated with Freud.
To the Lighthouse – 5
To the Lighthouse – 5
Freud’s family drama is on full display between James and his mother and father. Woolf writes of Mr. Ramsay, “But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated him for interrupting them” and by ignoring Mr. Ramsay, James “hoped to recall his mother’s attention.”
Invisible Man: 8
The protagonist and Mr. Norton visit a brothel that the patients from a mental institution are allowed to visit. The unruly patients are supervised by an attendant named Supercargo who kicks them down the stairs of the building when they rush to attack him. Supercargo can be associated with Freud’s concept of the “superego,” the aspect of human consciousness that regulates the behavior of the unruly unconscious mind, keeping those primal thoughts suppressed.
Invisible Man: 9
At the brothel, a patient of the mental institution tells the protagonist to watch as he attacks Supercargo, then he says “Sometimes I get so afraid of him I feel that he’s inside my head.” This lends credence to the idea that Supercargo represents the Freudian concept of the superego. After this, the patients repeatedly knock Supercargo unconscious, then revive him “only to kick him unconscious again.”