Psychoanalytic+Criticism

__** Three Parts of the Psyche **__

Id- unconscious __Ego-__ consciousness __Super-ego-__ conscience

divisions

**__ Oedipus Complex __**

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**__ Freudian Interpretation __**

Everything is believed to have another meaning than what it seems. Dreams can be made into "images, symbols, and metaphors". Because dreams show things, not say things, they are like literature and this is why Freudian methods of interpretation are used. Freud thinks that wishes, fears, or memories are shown in dreams so that they are brought to the conscious mind. He published a book titled //The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.// He also believes that forcing the emotions and thoughts from the conscious mind will not get rid of them, but only pushes it into the unconscious mind. Eventually, these feelings will surface again. Freud was asked to explain what it means when one "forget words". He said that people connect words to other things in their minds. Words can be associated to similar sounding words, events, and other things. When someone deletes a word when quoting they may be unconsciously protecting their mind from a certain memory. These associations also apply to dreams.

__**Freudian Psychoanalytic steps**__


 * 1) Psychoanalysts look at both the hidden and non hidden ideas. They draw connections between the overt and the conscious and covert and the unconscious. They believed that the unconscious aspects what the piece was really about.
 * 2) Closely observe unconscious "motives and fee​lings". of the authors and the characters in the author's book.
 * 3) Show the psychoanalytic symptoms, conditions, or phases.
 * 4)   Apply psychoanalytic "concepts" to the history of literature **__Example:__** Harold Bloom, "//The Anxiety of Influence//", written in 1973 was compared to the Oedipus complex
 * 5) Look at a "psychic" context for literature.

__** Sigmund Freud **__



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 __** Jacques Lacan **__



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