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26 May 2026

An Analysis of Jane Eyre from Freud’s Psychoanalysis

Pingyue Liang1*
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1 Lanzhou No.9 Middle School, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
EIR 2026 , 4(5), 73–78; https://doi.org/10.26689/EIR.v4i5.15078
© 2026 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Jane Eyre is a famous literary work set in the 19th-century Victorian period by  English writer Charlotte Brontë, who was a famous critical realist writer in the 19th century. During this period, Britain was one of the earliest countries to carry out the women’s liberation movement, and Jane Eyre was written against this background. As a complicated and deep literary work, Jane Eyre creates a brilliant female image of strong self-respect, independence, resistance, and courage for readers through Jane’s growth and social environment. This article attempts to interpret Jane’s complicated and typical character and the connotation of the spirit of the whole novel based on the psychological structure of Freud’s psychoanalysis theory to appreciate its unique artistic charm further.

Keywords
Jane Eyre
Growth
Character
Psychoanalytic theory
Charlotte bronte
References

[1] Waring SM, 1866, Charlotte Brontë’s Lucy Snowe. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 33: 368–371.

[2] Freud S, 1962, The Ego and the Id, Norton.

[3] Brontë C, 2008, Jane Eyre. Foreign Language Press, New York.

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