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William Faulkner's Sanctuary: Psychoanalytic Reading

William Faulkner's Sanctuary has been regarded as a "pot boiler" for quite a long time where corruption, violence and distorted sex are scattered . While he was writing novels with very experimental literary techniques, he wrote this work without notable modern techniques. Instead, it portrays the society which emphasized materialism and devalued morality and traditional values. But interestingly, when I researched his first script before publication, it has a different story. It underlines Horace Benbow's story even if he is not a major character and an outsider of Jefferson and Old Frenchman's Band that are main backgrounds of the novel. In short, he is a stranger but anyway he was involved with Temple and Popeye's case and while he was investigating what really happened in Tommy's murder case, his mind gets lost in the midst of reality and fantasy/fact and his own suppressed desire. Unlike Horace in 1931 version of Sanctuary, he, in The Original Text is another Wolfman in Freudian terms. When I infer from the unspecified primal scene, he has suppressed desire, Oedipus complex, sense of guilt for a long time, until he came to confront Temple-Popeye case. In that literary narration means unconscious procedure, Horace's incestuous love for his step daughter and Oedipal relation reveals Faulkner's own psychology. And it tunnels itself into Sanctuary which has long been interpreted in different ways. In conclusion, this work left me to the conviction that even if this novel has been labeled "pot boiler", it could be a matrix of all the other his major novels in terms of themes, characters, and the relationship between past and present. Also rereading gives me a chance to glimpse his artistry.