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Shrink MeA Brief Introduction to
Psychoanalysis and Psychological Criticism

• Presented by Deidre Price

Ohio Wesleyan University Online
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Aims

• Define psychoanalysis
• Revisit Freudian fundamentals
• Parts of the human psyche
• Three levels of consciousness
• Pleasure principle and instinctual drives
• Define key terms used in psychoanalysis
• Apply lesson to sample poems
• Anne Sextons Her Kind
• Sylvia Plaths Daddy
• Concluding Remarks

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Psychoanalysis
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The Human Psyche

Psyche Demon by Peter Brooks (2004)
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Levels of Consciousness

• Conscious Mind
• Preconscious Mind
• Unconscious Mind

Cited from ChangingMinds.org
David Garfinkel (2004)
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Psychobabble, or Key Terms

• REPRESSION
• ISOLATION
• SUBLIMATION
• DISPLACEMENT
• DENIAL
• PROJECTION
• INTELLECTUALIZATION
• REACTION FORMATION

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Psychoanalysis and Confessional Poets

• Anne Sexton Sylvia Plath

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Works Cited

• Lynn, Steven. Minding the Work Psychological
  Criticism. Texts and Contexts Writing about
  Literature with Critical Theory. New York
  Longman, 2005.

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Shrink MeA Brief Introduction to
Psychoanalysis and Psychological Criticism

• Presented by Deidre Price

Ohio Wesleyan University Online