Psychoanalytic Approach in Literary Criticism

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Title: Psychoanalytic Approach in Literary Criticism

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Mechanics: The class will be divided into 6 groups. Picture/s will then be presented and one group will create a scenario using them. They will be given 3 minutes to discuss with each other. After they give their scenario, another group would then discuss with each for 2 minutes as to how the first group came to that scenario.

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Psychoanalytic Criticism
-Applies psychoanalysis techniques to understand literature
-Believed that literary texts express the author's unconcious desires and anxieties
-Assumes all characters are projections of the author's psyche

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3 Popular Psychoanalytical Approaches for Interpreting Literature:
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Key Concepts Used:
○Id
○Ego
○Super-Ego
○Unconcious
○Repression
○Sublimation
○Projection
○Dream Work

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Title: Background of the Approach

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Psychoanalytic Theory
-Created by Sigmund Freud
-Concentrates on awareness levels combined with early childhood experience
-Explains that human personality as a series of stages formed through inner conflict

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Components of the Human Mind
○Id
○Ego
○Super-Ego

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Id
-Unconcious component
-Instinctive responses to primitive urges & needs
-Driving force of our personality
-Driven by the pleasure principle
-A selfish trait
-Any behaviour contributing to survival

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Ego
-Present in every level of awareness
-Operates by reality principle
-Follows the pleasure principle but considers other things
-Many defense mechanisms are based upon the ego
-Combination of judgment and self-control
-Concerns with selfish behaviour

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Super-Ego
-Centered on Conscience
 *Conscience - Result of learned behaviour that evolves through others' influence
-Rarely selfish

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Levels of Conciousness:
○Concious Thoughts - Awareness
○Preconcious Thoughts - Easily retrieved memories
○Unconcious Thoughts - Hidden memories

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Unconciousness
-Part of the mind beyond conciousness
-Has a strong influence on our actions

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Ideas Linked with Unconciousness:
○Repression - 'forgetting' or ignoring unresolved conflicts, unadmitted desires, or traumatic past events
○Sublimation - repressed impulses are transformed into something more socially acceptable behaviour

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Psychological Processes:
○Tranference - Redirects the emotions recalled towards another
○Projection - unrecognized aspects of ourselves are perceived and attributed to another
○Freudian Slip - repressed material in the unconscious finds an outlet through everyday phenomena

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Dream Work
-Process which real events or desires are transformed into dream images
○Dreams - Reflection of the dreamer's unconscious psychological states
○Displacement - A person or event is represented by something linked or associated to it
○Condensation - A number of people, events, or meanings are combined and represented by a single image

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4 Ways to Focus a Psychoanalytical Interpretation:
○Analyze the author's life
○Analyze work's thematic content
○Analyze text's artistic construction
○Analyze the reader using the reader-response theory

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3 Popular Approaches:
○Freudian
○Lacanian
○Jungian