Love And Hate For Life: An Analysis Of The Family Complex Of Charlotte Bront(?)

Charlotte Bronte held her position on the literature history with her Jane Eyre, and her two little sisters, Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte, were not inferior to her. Charlotte made a lot of sacrifices for her family members in her short life. Why she showed the absolute dependence, although she was a writer who could characterize her heroine with such as independent personality? From the point of psychoanalysis, This article made a research for the tangling of the family complex, namely the sibling complex and the Oedipus complex, of Charlotte from her growing history. And this article does not emphasize on the review of literature, but taking Charlotte as the analyzed object of a case, and analyzing her natural psychological structure with the materials correlative.Charlotte Bronte underwent the death of both her mother and her two young sisters in her childhood. Then she became the keeper of her siblings on her whole life, and meanwhile she kept a close relation with her father. But by analyzing these story plots about the sibling relation of all her novels, we found that the sibling relation were identically not harmonious, and sometimes there even came about some hostilities, so it could be said that the hate of siblings was expressed unconsciously under a cover of the love of sibling. Investigating the origin of the sibling complex, we would find that it had a close relation with the Oedipus complex, and the sibling rivalry was fought for the love of the parents.Charlotte Bronte (even all the children of the Bronte) has a complex sentiment to her aunt who came to the Bronte and took care of the children with selflessness, although her aunt educated them for nearly nineteen years as a spinster, and even worked to the death in their family. The aunt has the most possibility to replace the role of their mother, and also she became the biggest threat to Charlotte's Oedipus complex. But there was not a real mother who could castrate her Oedipus complex, and her aunt was her strong superego all the time.Freud had analyzed the difference of the Oedipus complexes between boys and girls. Charlotte Bronte loved her father, such as a boy desired his mother, with sexuality. She tried to become the woman of her father by looking after her siblings, and she tried to share some common points with her father, like writing and some other interest.At the beginning of the construction of the family, the father, M. Bronte, was not fully prepared for the role of a father, and his generation complex was not shown explicitly. He responded to his daughter's love, and he even hindered the marriage of Charlotte's. This depending on each other for survival between father and daughter was the reason for the persistence of the Charlotte's family complex, and this dependence could be called incest to some extent.The article puts in order the theories of the sibling complex and the relation between the sibling complex and the Oedipus complex by studying the case, and put in order the theory about explaining the family complex clinically. And the development of the research could open a discussion space for studying the problems of the Chinese Only One Child.