The Narcissism of Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure

Abstract

Abstract-In Jude the Obscure, Sue Bridehead is an image of complex, puzzling unstateable and knowledgeable Victorian woman. She has a particular narcissistic psyche which Hardy deliberately depicts. By the comparison between his vivid and acute depiction and Freud's analysis on the narcissism, we can probe into Hardy's sensitive insights into the psychology of human being.