Published July 16, 2024 | Version v1
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Problematising Sex and Gender: Reconsideration of Freud concerning the Select Poem Home they Brought Her Warrior Dead

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The concept of Gender and sex is not unknown to literary studies; rather,
it is interdisciplinary in nature. This means that in literary studies, and specifically
with the emergence of critical theory, literary interpretations have gone into
sociological approaches. Gender and sex have always been at the center of literary
discussions. The present paper highlights both of these notions, referring to Freud and
attempts to bring some attention to problems in understanding Gender and Sex. The
central question is: what is the dominating force that decides human behavior? If we
go for Freud emphasizes human sexuality, which is the driving force in the human
psyche that decides human behavior. Though Gender is a social construction, can
human beings suppress sexuality in the choice of gender foregrounding? With the
help of the selected poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the author has tried to rethink
these notions and urges readers to rethink the terminologies within the fresh contexts
of changing social behaviors. 

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