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Title: Psychoanalytic Criticism


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Psychoanalytic Criticism
  • Whats wrong with these people?

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Based on writings of Sigmund Freud
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Id unintentional instincts
  • Pleasure principle avoid pain, seek pleasure
  • Ego organized realistic part
  • Reality principle consciously seek to fulfill id
  • Super-ego critical moralizing function
  • The conscience

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Literary Texts
  • Like dreams, express unconscious desires or
    anxieties
  • Is a manifestation of authors neuroses
  • Text is window into authors psyches
  • Can also analyze one character, but usually
    concentrates on author

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Criticism seeks evidence of
  • Unresolved emotions
  • Psychological conflicts
  • Guilts
  • Childhood trauma
  • Sexual conflicts
  • Fixations
  • Family issues

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Encoded
  • Uses symbolism, metaphors, similes
  • Repressed, not intentional
  • Perhaps not even acknowledged by author

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Examples
  • Oedipus a boy thrown away, a hero, only to be
    tricked by fate?
  • OR
  • Oedipus a boy in love with his mother who will
    stop at nothing to have her?
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