This paper aims to analyze the connection between psychoanalysis and feminist criticism in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Through self-reflection into the female characters’ life and by concluding how a character ends up being labelled as ‘mad’ from the psychoanalytic literary criticism perspective, with an insight into the theory of the Other and the concept of social castration. The conclusion shows how narrative representation of female psychoanalysis in British and American canonical literature changed the way in which we perceive literature and gender and offers another side of the story for my primary characters.

Cătălina Roșca

Author

Cătălina Roșca holds a BA from Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania.