RT Generic
T1 Humour as Defence Mechanism: Coping with Grief and Guilt in Fleabag
T2 El humor como mecanismo de defensa: afrontar el duelo y la culpa en Fleabag
T2 O humor como mecanismo de defensa: afrontar o dó e a culpa en Fleabag
A1 Grobas Barciela, Nerea
K1 Psychoanalysis
K1 Fleabag
K1 melancholia
K1 Mourning
K1 Melancholia
K1 Lost object
K1 Guilt
K1 Humour
K1 Trickster
K1 Persona
K1 Social mask
AB Fleabag is a monologue written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and first performed in 2013. It was later adapted for television as a series on the life of Fleabag, a young London woman, who faces the deaths of two central female figures of her life. The first one is her mother, dead because of breast cancer three years before the beginning of the story and, more recently, her best friend Boo, who died accidentally flattened by a group of cyclists when trying to get herself hurt. Despite the tragic events mentioned before, the tone of the monologue is comic and irreverent, just like the protagonist, as she confronts the deaths and her life's troubles with humour. The aim of this study is to analyze the precess of grief from a psychoanalytic perspective based primarily on Sigmund Freud's Mourning and Melancholia (1917) and Humour (1928). Humour is a self-defense mechanism used by grief-strcken and guilt-ridden protagonist, Fleabag, to cope with a reality that is actually extremelly painful for her: Particular attention will be paid to the twomother figures, Mother and Boo, whose absence pushes Fleabag into a frenzy of sexual relations that never develop into fully satisfactory relationships with men. Fleabag's pain is aggravated by a profound feeling of guilt for her detachment from her family and for Boo's death
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31163
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31163
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026