Psychological Temperaments And Confessions In Plath’s Works

Abstract

Plath's confessional and condemnatory writing became a significant platform for analyzing her life. Plath's portrayal of a strong, victimized figure prompted reviewers to investigate how information from her personal life explained the subject matter of her poems; it is undeniable that Plath herself loved the idea of disclosing specifics from her personal life and feelings through her art. However, the underlying mental illness that she suffered from, with a history of despair and suicidal tendencies, is the source of her troubles as expressed in her poems. Her published poetry and unabridged journals attest to Plath's emotional swings; in a journal entry dated October 3, 1959.

Plath's Journals, according to critic Stephen Moss, are "evidence of madness." The entire 1957-59 edition has 730 pages of "raw and bloody stuff" from her private therapy sessions. The journals make Plath more "terrifying: self-obsessed, furious, living at an unendurable degree of intensity." This paper will demonstrate how she regularly employed symbols of death and trauma, referring to internalized and externalized transference interactions that replicate past experiences. Despite her attempts to transcend through sublimated literature, the death drive that preoccupied her, the overpowering power of these inclinations, eventually triumphed over her longing for life. Her horrible experiences, unhappy and traumatized state of mind, death drive, and suicide attempts acted as a spark to her creative mind, which eventually generated some subconscious pieces of art. And it is via these works that we can see the magnetic pull of these destructive powers