The Hunchback of Notre Dame Analysis

Introduction

Hugo began to write The Hunchback in 1829. Agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book will be finished in the same year. This story is concerned with the status of Freud's theorizing during his collaboration with Carl Jung, and with the mutual influence of each thinker on the other in the years following their estrangement. (Webber Mike 592).

Thesis Statement

Jung's seven year discipleship with Freud was a turning point in his emergence as a distinctive thinker of world importance

Jung and Freud

At the beginning of his fascination with Freud in 1906, Jung was a thirty-one year old psychiatrist of unusual promise, with a gift for psychological research and a prestigious junior appointment at one of Europe's major centres for treatment of psychotic disorders (Rebello 417-552). By the time of his break with Freud in 1913, Jung was internationally known for his original contributions to clinical psychology and for his forceful leadership of the psychoanalytic movement. He was also the author of the seminal work, Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, that would define his independence from that movement. However, Hugo was constantly delayed due to the cost of other projects.

By the summer of 1830, demanded Gosselin book, which will be completed by February 1831. And so beginning in September 1830, Hugo worked non-stop on the project, he bought a new bottle of ink, a woollen cloak, and cloistered in her room refusing to be bothered, or leave his house (except for night visits to the Cathedral). This book was finished six months later.

History goes back to January 6, 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Esmeralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many people, but especially Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his lust and rules of the Church. He orders Quasimodo to get it. Quasimodo was caught and beaten and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, gives him water. He rescues her, because it reflects the heart of the hunchback. t is clear in light of their personal correspondence and of recent studies of the concurrent clinical and family circumstances of each that Freud and Jung were drawn together in part by unresolved personal needs -- Freud's for a male intimate in relation to whom he could play out his ...