FREE ESSAY ON LOSS, ABANDONMENT AND RECOVERY

LOSS, ABANDONMENT AND RECOVERY

Loss/ Abandonment and Recovery
In choosing on how to write this essay I chose to work with dealing on loss and recovery.
Loss, abandonment, recovery, and creation are all feelings human beings have had to deal
with throughout the history of life and even more so in our readings the characters take
it to a whole different level. There were quite a few readings we've perused through this
semester that dealt with topics such as loss and abandonment or recovery. Narcissus was
all splattered with a sensed of loss and abandonment and even recovery. How more tragic
abandonment could take place when the person you fall deeply in need for disregards your
every notion and rejects your offer. Narcissus thrust echo away from himself because she
didn't come close in beauty to himself and to the expectations he had set forth for
himself. Further yet how more tragic and incident of recovery could have taken place when
narcissus discovers himself in a mirror resembling pond. Finding the most beautiful being
he had ever seen but yet not being able to embrace it, hug it, kiss it. I could even say
that Narcissus experienced quite a sense of abandonment when he realized the figure he
saw didn't want him back, yet really not knowing that it was himself. 
Among the classic abandonment stories is the one that was written by Jean Jacques
Rousseau. I find it quite horrific the way in which he was dealt with by his father in
his early childhood. Agreeing with Rousseau on whether or not it was his fault that his
mother died is all irrelevant. While thinking about it, could Rousseau really have felt
any other way about it? His father constantly let him know how much his mother had been
missed, "Give her back to me, console me for her, fill the void she has left in my heart!
Should I love you so if you were not more to me than a son?" (Gunner p 278). What's
possibly the quite worst of all is what all of this left upon Rousseau as a kid. For he
never really grew up emotionally normal due to the burden that was quite unfairly placed
on him, and this in turn led to the many misfortunes that would fall him throughout his
life.
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was filled with tales of loss and abandonment and creation
and recovery. Creation and recovery start off the tale of Frankenstein but soon
abandonment and loss soon beset the stage of fate. Upon the discovery of his newly found
abandonment the creature by who Victor Frankenstein created really got to show us the
effects of abandonment on a man-child. The story in my eyes has quite a few hidden
subplots that are made to be discovered and interpreted differently by every different
reader that crosses paths with this story. For I see in parts of this story I see Mary
Shelley trying to tell us that creation falls upon the duty of no man and that only God
shall be the all mighty maker of man. That's one of my interpretations of the story.
Again one can only conceive upon what it would be like to create such an atrocity, yet
Victor gives us quite a description, "he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints
were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have
conceived. So if by ranking all of the texts in accordance with having loss/abandonment
and recovery/creation as pre-requisites for the order than it would be clear that this by
far outranks any of the texts that we have read up to. Again that's my personal opinion,
which is in itself questionable, but nonetheless I give it to you
When I start to read the works of Sigmund Freud I get the overwhelming sense that he
mainly deals with recovery and creation. The work I read of his in class was "The
Interpretation of Dreams". I've read a few of Freud's other works on my own and I know
doubt come to the conclusion that he is crazy with dealing with recovery and creation. In
reading his incerpt Freud goes on talking about dreams and what they mean through our
subconscious minds. Freud deals a lot with sexual subconscious thoughts to and what they
mean as far to our normal thinking. A great example of how he worked this way was that,
he said if people had a lot of dreams about being in a train with a member of the
opposite sex or even a member of the same sex that they knew and they were constantly
going in and out of tunnels, then it meant that their subconscious was telling this
particular individual that they wanted a great deal to have sexual intercourse with this
person. Some of his notions and theories on the human sub-conscious and sexuality were
quite strange and off the wall, but they all had a sensibleness to them that made it hard
to ignore that he could be on to something. In the scheme of things though it just seems
to me that he is always intrigued by and interested with recovery and creation in the
sense that he is always trying to recover the actual meaning behind dreams so that he
could find out what's going on in our sub-conscious and therefore create a little
knowledge into what the sub-conscious really can tell us about a person true feelings,
emotions, and thoughts. Sigmund Freud if he was around this day and age could have
discovered far more now than he ever did back then with all of the new technology and
other equipment that could have been at his disposal. I also felt that he was always onto
something but could never really get over the top of the hill, nonetheless he was right
there, "The relation of our typical dreams to fairy-tales and other fiction and poetry is
neither sporadic nor accidental." What does this mean. In my opinion it meant that he
knew what the truth behind it was, but that he couldn't back it up with the scientific
proof yet to show the people that he was right.