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Psychoanalytic
Assumption
Why Psychoanalytic?
When people are
reading any books,
listening to any
kind of music with
any kind of lyrics,
and watching any
kind of movies, the
psyche condition of
people work the
most.
People will use the
Psychoanalytical
Perspective first
among other perspectives.
Psychoanalytic criticism
may focus on the writer's
psyche, the study of the
creative process, the study
of psychological types and
principles present within
works of literature, or the
effects of literature upon its
readers
The Key is UNCONSCIOUSNESS or one's
mind hidden part: the part
of the mind containing
memories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas that the person is not generally aware of
but that manifest themselves
Sigmund Freud
(1856 - 1939)
Psychoanalytic Literary
Criticism
Circle of Knowledge
The Fish
Psychoanalytic Assumption
Jacques Lacan
(19011981)
Psychoanalytic Criticism argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret
unconscious desires and anxieties of the
author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may
psychoanalyze a particular character within
a literary work, but it is usually assumed
that all such characters are projections of
the author's psyche.
this critical endeavor seeks evidence of
unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilts, ambivalences, and so forth
within what may well be a disunified literary work. The author's own childhood traumas, family life, sexual conflicts, fixations,
and such will be traceable within the behavior of the characters in the literary
work. But psychological material will be
expressed indirectly, disguised, or encoded
(as in dreams) through principles such as
"symbolism" (the repressed object represented in disguise),
"condensation" (several thoughts or per-
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"What does it
matter how many
lovers you have if
none of them gives
you the universe?"
(Jacques Lacan)
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REFERENCES:
http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#psycho
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/psycho.crit.html
http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/psychcrit.html
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/ajb/tmve/
wiki100k/docs/Psychoanalytic_literary_criticism.html
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/
critical_define/crit_psycho.html