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¶ … psychoanalytical critical analysis of Leslie Gore's "It's My Party." Using two tools and two coding mechanisms in your critique.
Use psychoanalytical tools and coding mechanisms in your discussion.
The lyrics of this song depict a person who is fragile, co-dependent and in great conflict Her fragile ego easily affects her emotional balance.
[It's My Party Analysis]
In a struggle to strive for a sense of self, human beings are often in conflict with their emotions and use many ways to deal with social and cultural phenomena that impact their lives. Leslie gore's "It's My Party" is a good example of a young woman struggling through a relation at a critical moment in her life, her birthday party.
The song depicts a woman of unknown age who is celebrating an important occasion in her life, only to find that the celebration is marred by the loss of her boyfriend. The song bemoans the loss and mockingly, she chants, "oh what a birthday surprise."
If we begin by looking at the symbolism in of the lyrics, we can see that the woman depicted in the song is in turmoil. There could be several things taking place and perhaps some confusion as to what's real and what's not.
Could she have lost touch completely with reality and perhaps is suffering from some sort of psychosis, where she is imagining a situation? Perhaps Johnny was never her boyfriend but rather Judy's all along and...
Analytically, this transference illustrates some unresolved conflicts, dependencies or aggressions that could be transferred to Johnny from another object of her desire. Perhaps the line, "when he's supposed to be mine" demonstrates some type of fixation on Johnny Or another male that was an important figure in an earlier phase in her life.
Symbolically, the song is fraught with contradictions. The very first line shows conflict, "it's my party and I'll cry if I want to." Who cries at a party? Is she looking for justification or acceptance?
She could be suffering from depression. That would explain the crying syndrome.
In the third set of lyrics, she alludes to the fact that without Johnny, there is nothing. She indicates her need or desire to be alone. This could be indicative of a martyr-like syndrome or a "poor me" complex.
Perhaps, she is employing an inverted look at her life. How can Johnny, her fantasy man be causing her such pain? She does not seem to be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality enough to realize that if indeed Johnny is real and this is her birthday party, then the pain is real. It is the reality of the moment and the event that is causing her pain, not the fantasy that she has created.
People make numerous transformations throughout their life and the individual epitomized in the…
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