Issues of Repression, Language and Female Subjectivity in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspective

Abstract

This paper is a psychoanalytic feminist critique to Kate Chopin's "The Story of an hour". The paper is qualitative descriptive in nature and employes textual evaluation and close reading strategies. The paper goals to explore the topics of repression, language, and woman subjectivity in the quick story via utilizing the theoretical framework of Luce Irigaray. Irigaray’s theory reviews patriarchal language and its position in shaping and repressing female identity, imparting a completely unique perspective on Chopin’s narrative. The modern studies paper analyzes how Chopin’s use of language displays the repression of the protagonist, Louise Mallard, and examines her short moment of liberation as a disruption of patriarchal discourse. This research gives a new interpretation of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" contributing to feminist literary criticism and psychoanalytic concept via making use of Irigaray’s psychoanalytic feminist ideas. The findings reveal that language functions as each a mechanism of repression and a capacity road for reclaiming female subjectivity within a patriarchal framework. The paper looks at insights into the complicated relationships among repression, language, and lady autonomy inspire further exploration of psychoanalytic feminism in literature, in particular in relation to different works by using Kate Chopin and beyond.