Psychoanalytic

Criticism
Ms. Frances Rayala
Do you believe that
everything is a
fantasy that only
exists in our mind?
 Table of Contents

Who is
The Freudian
01 Sigmund 02 Mind
Freud?

Analyzing Text
Psychoanalytica through
03 04
l Criticism Psychoanalytic
Perspectives
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Who is Sigmund
Freud?
 Who is Sigmund Freud?

He is an Austrian neurologist usually

credited with creating psychoanalytic
theory and, by extension, psychiatric
therapy.

Freud believed that unconscious sexual

drives were the basis for all human
behavior, and that dreams were an
important indicator for understanding
human behavior.

He was the founder of psychoanalysis,

which is a set of psychological theories and
therapeutic methods
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The Freudian Mind

The Freudian Mind

E Conscious
G
O
Pre-Conscious SUPER-EGO
E
G
O Unconscious ID
 THE FREUDIAN MIND

PRE- UNCONSCIO
CONSCIOUS
CONSCIOUS US
Current contents of Contents of the mind
Contents kept out of
your mind that you are you are not currently
conscious awareness
actively think of aware of

01 02 03
 THREE TIERS OF SELF

ID seeks pleasure and avoids

pain

Maintains our “self – how we

see our “self” and wish others EG
to see it
O
SUPER- Incorporates the values and
EGO morals of society
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Psychoanalytic
Criticism
 What is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
It argues that literary texts, like
dreams, express the secret
It adopts the methods unconscious desires and
of "reading" anxieties of the author, that a
employed by Freud literary work is a manifestation
and later theorists to of the author's own neuroses.
interpret texts.

One may psychoanalyze a

It approaches an particular character within
author’s work as a a literary work, but it is
kind of textual “talk usually assumed that all
therapy” such characters are
projections of the author's
psyche.
THREE PRACTICES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

01 02 03

Reference to author’s Reading of literary work

Reference to literary
personality in order to in order to experience
works in order to
interpret or explain a distinctive subjectivity or
establish, biographically
literary work consciousness of its own
personality of the author
author
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Analyzing Text through

Psychoanalytic
Perspective
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How do the operations of What does the work suggest

repression structure or about the psychological
inform the work? being of its author?
01 04

Are there any Oedipal What might a given

dynamics - or any other 02 05 interpretation of a literary work
family dynamics - at work suggest about the psychological
here? motives of the reader?
03 06

How can characters' behavior, narrative

Are there prominent words in
events, and/or images be explained in
the piece that could have
terms of
psychoanalytic concepts of any kind? different or hidden meanings?
THREE-PART STRUCTURE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC
CRITICISM

INTRODUCTI
01 Basic Literary Information
ON

02 BODY Psychoanalytic Lens

03 CONCLUSION Freudian Conclusion

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