Don't save her’– Sigmund Freud meets Project Pat
The rescue motif in hip‐hop
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard H Fulmer (740 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 727-742 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00045.x |
| PMID | 18816338 |
| OpenAlex | W2012329696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Freud originally explicated the dynamics of rescue wishes by describing men who fell in love with prostitutes. He saw this attempt at attachment as driven by the man's wish to repay his parents for giving him life. Many subsequent writers shift this emphasis, seeing rescue wishes as motivated by aggressive oedipal competition with the father. This article highlights the attachment aspects of Freud's original conception and traces how writers in the last three decades use the family romance rather than Oedipus as a model to view rescue wishes as having a more tender aspect. Rescue wishes are especially characteristic of the developmental stage of young adulthood. They at once attempt to repay the parental debt the young adult feels and serve as practice for the vicissitudes of the couple bond and the benign sacrifices of parenthood. Popular culture contains many vivid examples of Freud 's original description of the rescue-motif. A detailed examination of the rap song, Don't save her, demonstrates all the elements of Freud's original conception and the interpersonal risks of the rescue relationship. Three additional rap songs by other artists are briefly analyzed to show the extensive occurrence of the wish to rescue and its psychic and interpersonal dangers
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Motif (music · Oedipus complex · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Romance · Wish · Diverse Music Education Insights · Medicine · Music History and Culture · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |