Tritt’s View of Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Tritts View of Young Goodman embrown In the article, Young Goodman brownish and the psychology of Projection, Michael Tritt critically analyzes Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown to construct the unconscious process of how Hawthorne regards Goodman Browns behavior. Tritt examines the phenomenon of exclusion in psychology and believes that Browns compulsive condemnation of otherwises, along with his consistent denial of his own culpability, illustrates a classically defined case of projection (116). He defines projection as an unconscious process when a person projects their own traits or desires onto other people, thus representing a false perception on whom the projection is made. Tritt perceives Goodman Browns withdrawal is from the persuasion that he has not fallen in with his devilish fellowship, thus Goodman Brown projects his guilt to them in an attempt to outflow a guilty subconscious mind. While Goodman Brown is in the forest, he locates his anxieties upon the community that he lives in. The experience in the forest actually depicts Goodman Browns own evils. Tritt refers to Goodman Brown victimizeing away a child being catechized by Goody Cloyse If Brown truly conceives of himself as fallen, why would he snatch the child from one fiend to yield yet another, namely himself? Brown must believe himself un sully, or at least less tainted than various members of his community. (115) Michael Tritt believes that Browns anxieties inevitably stick within his subconscious forever. The anxieties suggest a psychological design with aspects of misperception and false perception to soften a projection process. Tritt asserts that Goodman Browns evil is located in others, and Brown believes himself to be without guilt although his desires are still in his subconscious. It is a vice-like grip with which such process is paralyzing, indeed terrifying (Tritt 116). Undoubtedly, Michael Tritt uses a psychological strategy to critically analyze Young Goodman Brown. He conservatively constructs his criticism through quotes from other critics and the short story. Sigmund Freud is also quoted because he theorized the projection process.