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Title: Psychological Criticism


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Psychological Criticism
  • the artist is the leader of mankind on the road
    to absolute truth
  • -Alfred Adler

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  • Psychological criticism is inspired by Sigmund
    Freud and his notion of the unconscious
  • Actions are not random, but they are guided by
    hidden motivations (repression)

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Key ideas for Psychological Criticism
  • Areas of consciousness
  • Id (desire)
  • - guided by
  • the pleasure principle
  • Ego (safety)
  • - mediates between id and superego
  • - sends taboo desires to the unconscious
  • Superego (morals)
  • - learned sense of right and wrong

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Key Ideas
  • Oedipus complex
  • The first repressed desire

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Other Key Terms
  • Isolation absence of expected response
  • ?ignoring your emotions
  • Sublimation channeling unacceptable desires
    to art or fantasy
  • Displacement substituting another object to
    focus ones emotion on

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Other Key Terms
  • Denial not acknowledging the existence of
    something
  • Projection put your own desires on
    something/someone else
  • Reversal assert opposite of the truth

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Assumptions a Psychoanalytic Critic Makes
  1. Creative writing (like dreaming) represents the
    (disguised) fulfillment of a (repressed) wish or
    fear.
  2. Everyones formative history is different, but
    there are patterns and these patterns have
    lasting effects.
  3. In reading literature, we can make educated
    guesses as to what has been repressed or
    transformed.

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Strategies for the Psychoanalytic Critic
  1. Attempt to apply development concept to the work.
  2. Relate the event to psychologically significant
    events in the authors or characters life.
  3. Consider how repressed material may be expressed
    in the works imagery or symbols.
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