Psychoanalytic Review of Wedding Ceremonies

The theme of the final qualifying work: "Psychoanalytic Review od Wedding Ceremonies." The purpose of the work: to consider what a wedding ceremony is from a psychoanalytic point of view, what it symbolizes, and how it plays out one or the other side of the mental. Subject of study: mental unconscious processes that are played out in the wedding ceremony. The main hypothesis: the wedding ceremony is a rite of passage that allows the main actors of the ceremony, the bride and groom, to move from an infantile childhood state into an adult responsible life. The main task: in the theoretical part, to combine the theories and concepts of well-known psychoanalysts, which may be relevant when considering a wedding ceremony; in the empirical part, to confirm the conclusions of the theoretical part on the example of a psychoanalytic analysis of a musical work by I.F. Stravinsky "The Wedding". The structure of this master's thesis consists of an Introduction, a Theoretical Chapter (Chapter 1), an Empirical Chapter (Chapter 2), Conclusions to the theoretical and empirical chapters, a Conclusion and a Reference List, presented on 57 pages. The introduction reflects the relevance of the topic, the subject of research, the goals and objectives of the work. In the theoretical part, the wedding ceremony is considered as a rite of passage, its symbolic meaning as a rite of passage is shown, and the main stages are analyzed. On the example of the theories of Z. Freud, K.G. Jung, S.N. Spielrein, D. Winnicot and other psychoanalysts show what internal mental processes are played out in the wedding ceremony. In the empirical part, a detailed psychoanalytic analysis of the “Weddings” by I.F. Stravinsky. The analysis of the work confirms the conclusions made in the first part. The conclusion of the work summarizes the conclusions made in the first and second chapters, and also confirms that the goals and objectives set have been achieved.