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However, the use of the two common theoretical approaches, psychoanalytical and decon- structionist, help one to understand this modern saga about American life.

Each literary approach, beginning with the psychoanalytical approach, will be explored and then a comparison of the utility of each approach, specifically in regard to White Noise, will be considered. The psychoanalytical approach is based on the work of Freud and others like Jung and Lacan. In this approach, attention is given to the mind of the characters, and their thoughts and dreams play an important role.

However, this approach also includes the possibility of providing insight into the mind of the author. This analysis will show how four psychoanalytic concepts, the Oedipus complex, the mirror stage, narcissism, and the tri-partite theory of consciousness, the help to explain White Noise.

In Chapter 6, Jack Gladney has a surprisingly contentious argument with his son, Heinrich, concerning the rain. In Chapter 10, Jack has another tense conversation with Heinrich. He begins by asking his son about the chess games that he plays with a convicted murderer in prison, and follows by asking his son if he wants to visit his biological mother in the summer.

Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something like that? How do you know whether something is really what you want to do or just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain? When the family temporarily moves to a camp, Heinrich forms an ad hoc classroom and begins to lecture a crowd about the nature of the toxic chemical, Nyolene.

Jack recognizes that this is an important development for Heinrich. According to Lacan, this critical stage in development takes place between six and eighteen months and is part of the identification process Jack may be a person that has separated from this stage with a sense of discord and a pervasive sense of uneasiness. Both Jack and Babette operate through a suppressed, silent, and overwhelming fear of death, and those they appear to be somewhat identical versions of each other they even both teach.

Both take radical steps to deal with their fear of death. In addition, they parent a child that seems to reach maturity as he patterns his behavior after the teaching activities of his parents. Thus, not only to Babette and Heinrich mirror Jack through their attempts to teach, but they receive confirmation of their identity through these actions. The psychoanalytical approach leans heavily on the work of Freud, and he developed a theory that helped explain the difference between healthy and pathological versions of narcissism.

The former assists with the formation of the self and helps build functional relationships, while the latter destroys Freud , which is seen in the myth of the Greek hunter who drowns after falling in love with his reflection. It is this unhealthy type of narcissism that is seen not only as Jack watches students arrive at the college, but through many events and conversations. Jack imagines himself to be an important lecturer at the school, wearing sunglass to every lecture and changing his initials to appear important.

However, like his friend Murray, he seems to focus on triviality, such as the fact that Hitler took piano lessons, was a sketch artist, and had a close relationship with his mother DeLillo He even takes German lessons to prepare for a gathering of Hitler experts, but only masters enough of the language to deliver a prepared speech and then spends a significant amount of time hiding.

His professional identity is essentially a sham. Further, he has deluded himself into thinking that he can protect his family from the challenges of modern life. After the Airborne Toxic Event, Jack attempts to move his family to safety, and unwittingly exposes himself to a deadly chemical. He eventually learns that he was unable to provide his wife with the safe relationship that could protect her from her fear of death when she reveals she obtained an experimental drug.

Jack finds the man that gives her the drug, and believes that he has the right to shoot him. Although Jack decides to take the wounded man to a hospital, both of these actions are explained by his inflated ego. At first, he is a "punisher," and then he comes a "savior. On the surface, Jack and Babette appear to deal with their fatal fears successfully. However, both take drastic measures to deal with their fear: Babette trades sex with Willie Mink to obtain the drugs that mitigate her irrational fears, and at least part of the reason why Jack shoots Willie concerns his own fear of death.

But perhaps the fear of death is part of a larger concern of Jack and Babette Gladney that explains other actions: the fear of living a meaningless and trivial life, a fear most likely magnified by the tension that results from apparently misguided attempts at helping their community. Babette volunteers in her community by teaching adult education lessons, but her classes focus on pedantic subjects like posture.

Ultimately, the actions of both adults to attempt to lead meaningful lives appears frustrated. The White Noise of the title refers naturally to a lot radio and likewise TV babble waves and likewise radiation , common consumer ads and supermarket items, and likewise the standard mishegas stated and likewise spoke about by a variety of his characters; nevertheless the term is furthermore supplied as an uncertainty for casualty.

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