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Critical Approaches
  • A Primer on Literary Theory

2
Freudian Psychoanalysis
  • Explores and analyzes literature in terms of
    mental processes
  • Psychoanalysis is a long and complex process in
    which the patient and psychoanalyst meet in
    one-on-one sessions to explore and discuss the
    root causes of the patients problems.
  • This is what you would do for your character

3
Freudian Psychoanalysis
  • Four Things to Look For
  • Freudian slips reveal unconscious thoughts
  • Puns and jokes lend expression to unconscious
    sexual and aggressive impulses
  • Neurotic and even psychotic symptoms reveal
    unconscious compulsions
  • Dream communicate unconscious desires

4
Feminist Criticism
  • With each wave, feminism has (despite the
    assumptions of its detractors) resisted not so
    much men as patriarchy, the system of relations
    that presumes the authority of men.

5
Feminist Criticism
  • Three Approaches That Guide What to Look For
  • First Wave How does patriarchal society repress
    women?
  • Second Wave How do women attempt to rise up
    from this repression?
  • Third Wave How do we reconcile the two?

6
Marxism
  • A type of criticism in which literary works are
    viewed as the product of work and whose
    practitioners emphasize the role of class and
    ideology

7
Marxism
  • What to look for?
  • Who has the power?
  • How is power transferred?
  • How is there a ruling class and a working class?
  • How does this system perpetuate power for the
    ruling class?
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