Self Betrayal: Marxist and Psychoanalytic Analyses of Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights"

This essay is a Marxist and Psychoanalytic approach to Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights".\nThe protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine are dealt with in terms of self-betrayal that bring\neconomic well-being but can shatter the psychic integrity of the whole personality. Heathcliff\nshows symptoms of abandonment neurosis transforming natural life energies into destructive\nurges against his external world when Catherine marries for social status. Her death drive is\nre-directed inwards when she no longer can have a relationship with Heathcliff and they both\nperish in a life denying psychotic state. Their intense union is based on their common preoedipal\npersonalities, and they can only be reunited in death.