This Really Sucks :: essays research papers

      C.G.Jungs comment, "The un advised mind of man soak ups correctly even when the informed reason is blind and impotent", is indicative to Margaret Atwoods book The Edible Woman. We expose how the unconscious(p)(p) affects a woman mind unknowingly. The mind and body gain an inter connection. They work with each other even though the conscious mind may not know it.      Atwoods main character, Marian McAlpin, was ordinary. after(prenominal) she graduated college she started her simplistic job. Her relationships with masses, friends, and her boyfriend, were purely surface. She began feeling crippled by the mundaneness of her already mapped out life. She feared the thought of universe the annoying old lady in the basement. She feared living a married life with children, miserable like Carla. She feared the precise thought of the "pension plan" for it symbolized the future. A future she hadnt began to question until s he met Dun gage. We see a shift of characteristics between Duncan and Marian. Her job is to chew up linguistic process to make it easier for people to read and understand and then test these people with her revisions. Duncan, however, treats the test as a psychological evaluation ex amplifying that ace should think and question what is simplistic. This is what Marian begins to do.      She needed to escape the thoughts that resided in her unconscious mind. She feared being pinned down. We stay images of this through out the book. Her thoughts of cannibalism represents her fear of consumption. Destruction. Peter erupts these feelings in spite of appearance her. His proposal of marriage charged her with such irrational fear that her physical self started to react to her unconscious self. Her inability of eating animals was a study symbol of her not wanted to pin down life. This transgressed to not being able to eat vegetables, because they too seemed life lik e to her. One can argue that she was only able to eat pasta and beans because they are amyloidal and stiff. They fill her but do not pose as a threat to her for they arent needed to live and arent life like. She begins to act neurotic, like Duncan. We get a glimpse of his unconscious mind with his obsession of ironing things. His unconscious mind needs to straighten out and un-wrinkle. He controls this. He feels blow in pressing out the most wrinkled items.     Another enkindle character in the book is Marians roommate Ainsley.