Myrtle

• Death drive
  • Running out into traffic
  • Lack of self preservation
• Death
  • Ultimate abandonment
    • Running away from Wilson
    • Chooses death over Wilson

Wilson

• Gun to kill is a phallic symbol
  • Exerting control
• Castration anxiety
  • Esmaculation from Myrtle’s cheating
• Death drive
  • Literally kills himself

Gatsby

• Death drive
  • Reckless
  • Doesn’t take much precautions after Myrtle’s death
  • He goes to the swimming pool???
• Objet petit a
  • Green light
    • Displacement for Daisy
• Fight with Tom
  • Displacement for his anger towards Tom’s class
  • His envy towards the rich
• Interfacing with the imaginary
  • Socially unacceptable
  • Indulging in the fantasy of being with Daisy and even making it known to Tom
• Selective perception/denial
  • Refusing to acknowledge Daisy’s true feelings about Tom
• Low self-esteem
  • Insecure sense of self
  • Insecure about his poverty
  • Molded himself into a rich persona
• Nom du pere
  • Father was not a huge breadwinner
  • Replaced father figure with Dan Cody

Tom

• Seduce abandon pattern
  • Daisy resembling his mother maybe?
  • Applying to Myrtle as well?
• Impulse/anger issues
  • No id control
  • Libido is out of control

Jordan Baker

• Penis envy?
  • Androgynous name and looks
  • Implied that Nick could be gay
  • Man-ish manners
• Insecure sense of self
  • Compulsive liar
• The Imaginary
  • Perception of Nick
  • Peeked behind the curtain of the Imaginary and saw Nick’s Real personality