Link of the article: http://jhp.sagepub.com/content/41/4/57.full.pdf+html

“Making Daemons of Death and Love: Frankenstein, Existentialism, Psychoanalysis”
By Will W. Adams, Psychologist

Summary of the author’s argument:
Both existentialism and psychoanalysis play a huge role in the creation and development of the characters in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The reader might take note of the topics such as death-repression, the return of the repressed and the daemonic. In Frankenstein, the Mary Shelley challenges death (in the living creature Victor Frankenstein has created), love (in the isolation Victor faces), nature (in how Victor evades it), and spirit (in the alterations of real spiritual encounters). The author Mary Shelley was able to channel her conflicts and desires into an everlasting book.

Critic:
The author Will W. Adams uses Rollo May (1969)’s observation that “The daemonic ‘is potentially creative and destructive at the same time’” (Adams 62) In this case, the author is extending what the critic Rollo May suggested. He affirms that “daemonic energy is available for us to take up, respond to, and channel as best we can.” He suggests that the manner in which a person reacts to the presence or the idea of a deamon will affect the outcome of the behavior of that deamon. Will W. Adams says,
“If we respond with openness and understanding, then our daemons tend to be integrated as benevolent, creative, energetic guides to transformation and health. But if we react with defensive avoidance, they tend to appear as malevolent, destructive sources of suffering.”

Develop an angle for your own paper:
I would like to explore the identity of both the narrator Victor Frankenstein and his monster using this article to help me develop a psychoanalysis. By extending, or sometimes refuting, on what the author Will W. Adams portrays in his research, I will be able to formulate my own opinions and have them backed up by other researchers.
In other words, Will W. Adams will aid me to engage in the conversation he forms part of when it comes to the identity and psychoanalysis in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.