Psychoanalytic

1. id: "the location of the drives" 2. ego: "one of the major defenses against the power of the drives" 3. superego: the area of unconscious that houses Judgment, "begins to form during childhood as a result of the Oedipus complex." Unconscious: the part of the mind beyond consciousness which still has a strong influence upon our actions. [] ALL THREE OF THESE LEVELS CORRESPOND TO THE CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSCIENCE, AND UNCONSCIOUS. - not everyone continued believed Freud after he established the Oedipus Complex(packet) - Psychoanalytic Criticism: Know the difference between the connotation of the event or feeling and the denotation, this means finding out what the work/idea is really about. - Discovering the differences allows you to established the "whys" of why a character does what he/she does. - This is to comprehend the main idea that is behind what an author wrote, "their secret meaning." []
 * This is the method of a type of "reading," interpretted by the former Austrian psychologist, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
 * Psychoanalysis precisely is a form of therapy, it aims to cure mental disorders.[]
 * He described that the way people act is affected by their unconcious: "the notion that human beings are motivated, even driven, by desires, fears, needs, and conflicts of which they are unaware.." []
 * We have three areas of the mind that we grow, beginning from infancy, childhood, to being an adult
 * He believed that whatever people wrote about, they secretly wanted to do that. ex: murder, sex, etc.
 * "The actions of characters are projections of the author's psyche." []
 * Freud thought that the Oedipus Complex was "one of the most powerfully determinative elements on the growth of the child" (Richter 1016)
 * Freud describes Oedipus Complex as something where "the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother." And, where the girl "shifts er sexual desire from the mother to the father."
 * Libido: energy drive for sexual desire.(packet)
 * The three stages of Libido include the //oral, anal,// and //pha//llic.(packet)
 * A concept called "Freudian Slip" is whenever repressed material in the unconcious finds an outlet through such everyday abnormal occurences slips of the tongue, pen, or unintended actions.(packet)
 * "Dream Work," a term that describes real events or desires that are transformed into dreams.(packet)
 * Freud had a theory that a dream is more or less an "escape of safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind."(packet)
 * //The Psychopathology of Everyday Life// is a book by Sidmund Freud, this is about people who wish, fear, memory, or desire may be difficult to face and people may try to cope with it through repression, in a way of trying to elimnate it from their minds.(packet)
 * Freud isn't very much liked by women considering he decribes women's sexuality as "based upon feelings of narcism, masochism, and passivity, and that they suffer from 'penis envy.'"(packet)
 * Many of Freud's ideas link occurences within a person's 3-part psyche to have sexual meanings.
 * Psychoanalytic Criticism and hot to criticise a piece of work: psychoanalytic criticism usually involves the analysis of either the author or a character in the story.


 * Two famous stories that use this type of criticism is "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Raven," both written by Edgar Allan Poe.