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Hilda Doolittle as a Myth-Maker: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of Hilda Doolittle’s “Sea Violet” and “Sea Gods”

Marwa Bilal Hameed, Prof Sadd Najim Al-Khafaji

Volume: 11 Issue: 2 2021

Abstract:

Patriarchal societies degrade females because of what they think of as a biological deficiency that is represented through the lack of the male sexual organ. This leads such societies to oppress females mentally as well as physically. This encourages a number of writers to indulge themselves in studying the psychological abnormality that the patriarchal societies lead the females to suffer from. Thus, by adopting the psychoanalytical feminist view, Hilda Doolittle aims to heal the female race from the patriarchal wounds that leads them to lose their identity as independent human beings. Accordingly, this paper aims at investigating how Doolittle does this by depending on the Greek gods and goddesses as examples that could help her in supporting her argument that femininity has been defined falsely according to an unjust patriarchal canon.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v11i02.022

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