Dream, Desire, and Disobedience: A Freudian Psychoanalytic Analysis of Love and Psychological Conflict in Eros and Psyche and Orpheus and Eurydice
Psychology and Education A Multidisciplinary Journal August 29, 2026 Honesto “Troi” III Borromeo, Flordelice Pedrera
This study aims to demonstrate that disobedience in Eros and Psyche and Orpheus and Eurydice instead expresses unconscious psychological conflict rooted in desire, repression, and anxiety. Using a Freudian psychoanalytic framework, the analysis applies close textual reading to each myth's pivotal transgressive moment, coding Psyche's lamp scene and Orpheus's backward glance according to the...