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  Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism which, in method, concept, theory or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud.
Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself, and has developed into a rich and heterogeneous interpretive tradition.
The object of psychoanalytic literary criticism, at its very simplest, can be the psychoanalysis of the author or of a particularly interesting character.
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 Psychoanalytic literary interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Psychoanalytic literary interpretation" is a description of the application of the principles of psychoanalysis to literature and literary interpretation.
It is a basic part of literary theory.
A psychoanalytic literary interpretation is heavily influenced by the theories of Freud and Jung.
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 Learn more about Literary theory in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Literary theory begins with classical Greek poetics and rhetoric and includes, since the 18th century, aesthetics and hermeneutics.
There are many popular schools of literary theory, which take different approaches to understanding texts (which can also mean non-fiction, film, and practically anything else that can be 'read' or interpreted).
The practice of literary theory became a profession in the 20th century, but it has historical roots that run as far back as ancient Greece (Longinus' On the Sublime is an often cited early example as is Aristotle's Poetics).
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/literary_theory.html   (520 words)

  
 Introduction to Literary Interpretation
The interpreter is expected to hold a greater level of knowledge of the subject he or she is interpreting.
Literary interpretation essentially begins the moment an author publishes a book, for at that moment there is a need for someone to bridge the gap between the imaging audience created by the author, and the imagined voice of the author created by the audience.
Literary interpretation is the activity of bringing forth the meaning of a text.
www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/dale/601/fields/interpretation.htm   (1935 words)

  
 canadian literary journals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Literary theory - Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism.
Literary element - A literary element (or element of literature) is an individual aspect or characteristic of a whole work of literature.
Literary language - A literary language is a register of a language that is used in writing, and which often differs in lexicon and syntax from the language used in...
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 Literary Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
It is literary theory that formulates the relationship between author and work; literary theory develops the significance of race, class, and gender for literary study, both from the standpoint of the biography of the author and an analysis of their thematic presence within texts.
Literary theorists trace the history and evolution of the different genres—narrative, dramatic, lyric—in addition to the more recent emergence of the novel and the short story, while also investigating the importance of formal elements of literary structure.
Literary theory and the formal practice of literary interpretation runs a parallel but less well known course with the history of philosophy and is evident in the historical record at least as far back as Plato.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/l/literary.htm   (4789 words)

  
 PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.
The aim of psychoanalytic interpretation in these is not to reveal the latent meaning of the literary work on the basis of reconstruction of traumatic events from the author's past.
Psychoanalytic interpretation of this kind does not claim to change radically the previous understanding of the literary work but merely tries to inscribe it into the universal horizon of the mythological tradition of given society and culture.
This concept of the literary work implies that everything that could be called its "unconscious" as it is experienced by its addressee, both on the level of its content (signifieds) and in its signifying structure (its configuration of signifiers), is already by its essence not to be brought to consciousness.
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 Norman N. Holland, The Mind and the Book
It seems to me that the direction psychoanalytic theory, including its theory of literature, needs to take in the twenty-first century is to integrate psychoanalytic insights with the new discoveries coming from brain research and cognitive science.
Literary criticism, any kind of criticism, rests on the purpose of literature itself, for, after all, criticism is, as the old saying has it, only the handmaiden to the muse.
I believe that the psychoanalytic literary critic's primary job is to foreground that psychological element in what he or she says about books.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/nnh/mindbook.htm   (3906 words)

  
 Tutkijakoulu: Tapahtumat: Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice: Abstracts
Cultural differences in interpreting literary texts have to be incorporated into cognitive analyses if the cognitive paradigm is to be shown as more than an approach that borrows "deep" concepts like scripts and schemas from cognitive psychology.
Literary estrangement means breaking the reader's horizon of expectations and obstructing the reading, but it also means pointing to a new frame of reference and alternative ways of seeing and understanding the text.
Recent cognitive approaches aim at explaining the process of literary interpretation according to the same schemas and frames that are considered to categorize general human perceptions and interpretations of the actual world.
www.eng.helsinki.fi /tutkoulu/vanhoja/cognition_abs.htm   (9718 words)

  
 The Interpretation of Dreams literary Summary
To interpret dreams, one needs to understand the condensation of the material, the displacement of the conventional meaning of a symbol or utterance, or even a displacement of the "center" of the dream-thoughts.
He suggests that patients be put into a restful position with the eyes closed, that patients be told not to criticize their thoughts or to withhold the expression of them, and that they continue to be impartial about their ideas.
Convincingly argues that, because interpretation is never a neutral act, Freud failed to acknowledge the prophetic aspect of his dream work.
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 Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism: 1. Traditional Freudian Criticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His vast mythological and literary research was in the service of grounding the Oedipus complex for psychoanalysis--although he eventually unsettled this ground with his ideas about birth trauma and pre-Oedipal separation anxiety.
Many of her literary analyses follow Freud's: her essay "The Impatience of Hamlet" (1929) continues Jones's study (the early version published in 1910) and deepens it to consider pre-Oedipal issues, as well as the therapeutic functions of art: "The poet is not Hamlet.
Sharpe's literalism opens her to charges that she writes the worst sort of psychoanalytic criticism, as when she writes of "child Lear" howling in rage at his mother's pregnancy, or the King's retinue of knights as a symbol for feces, or the Bard himself as an angry, defecating infant (246).
www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/psychoanalytic_theory_and_criticism-_1.html   (1846 words)

  
 4Reference || Psychoanalytic literary interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A psychoanalytic literary interpretation is heavily influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Characters in a work (and even the author) might be examined in terms of their perversions, fantasies, fears, aspirations, and dreams.
Examples of psychoanalytic literary interpretation: This article is a.
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 Read about Literary criticism at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Literary criticism and learn about Literary ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of
literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals.
Poetics, a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works, in the 4th century BC.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Literary_criticism   (676 words)

  
 Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism: 3. The Post-Lacanians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is the direction of the transformative psychoanalytic critiques of Nicholas Abraham, Maria Torok, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari--Deleuze and Guattari, in particular, influencing those who wanted to go "beyond" primary Freudian concepts and Lacanian innovations such as the subject, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real.
Felman argues in her discussions of literature, criticism, and education that humans must read and interpret psychoanalytically so as to respond to the radical alterity of the impossibilities posed by the Other.
As literary critics, they tend to be deconstructive readers who challenge and dismantle the unities of realism and its metonymic effects of familiarity in a text.
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I argue that the interpretation of flness as absence and hunger in an antifl world entails the convergence and conflation of race and gender since femininity is also traditionally interpreted as absence and hunger.
The study focuses on the psychoanalytic subtext in Italo Svevo's _La coscienza di Zeno_ (1930) and the manner in which the humor and irony of the text are linked to the subversive representation of psychoanalysis.
From a psychoanalytic and structural point of view, these four romances of the grail suggest that the grail was a symbol through which certain medieval writers attempted to articulate and mediate desire.
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 Literary theory at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism.
In the academic world of England and America, literary theory was at its most popular from the late 1960s (when its influence was beginning to spread outward from elite universities like Johns Hopkins and Yale) through the 1980s (by which time it was taught nearly everywhere in some form).
Another crucial distinction among the various theories of literary interpretation is intentionality, the amount of weight given to the author's own opinions about and intentions for a work.
wiki.tatet.com /Literary_theory.html   (1342 words)

  
 The Valve - A Literary Organ | Subliming Interpretation: Stone Frames some Issues in his Paper (and Replies To Holbo)
In contrast, literary criticism, no matter how Kant-involving it is, no matter how much it makes "conditions of possibility" questions thematic (Fish does this himself in his Milton work) is always asking a question of the form of (1); if it wasn’t it would’t be literary criticism.
Martin, you say that “an interpretation is [obviously] a kind of explanation.” Now I know that half to 4/5 of this disagreement stems from different meanings of the word “interpretation”; still I wonder if the obviousness of your statement comes partly from the way that you phrase it.
Thus, when a judge interprets, he also **deciding the rights and obligations of the parties**; and that is not an apt description of what literary critics or performers do when they interpret.
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 Psychoanalytic literary interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
" Psychoanalytic literary interpretation " is a description of the application the principles of psychoanalysis to literature and literary interpretation.
Much attention is paid to the roles of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Characters in a work (and even author) might be examined in terms of perversions fantasies fears aspirations and dreams.
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 Psychoanalytic literary interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Style: Speaking out: dialogue and the literary unconscious   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Freud's concept of the unconscious is the foundation of psychoanalysis, but it is also the primary obstacle to psychoanalytic literary criticism.
The originality of Freud's method in The Interpretation of Dreams is to ask patients to free associate to each element of a dream as if it were a rebus rather than attempt to interpret the dream as a whole.
An early strategy of psychoanalytic literary critics was to treat the text as the author's dream and attempt to find repressed material by reading the text against the author's biography.
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 Psychoanalytic Theory: Terms and Concepts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Freud and Lacan both locate the center of cultural organization and the formation of the subject in the family and sexual differentiation; the signifying activities of both the unconscious and the preconscious are centered in the Oedipal experience, and the Western symbolic order derives its coherence from the phallus or paternal signifier.
In the early theory, or 'topography', found in The Interpretation of Dreams, the mind is divided into three areas, the memory, the unconscious, and the preconscious.
The metaphoric is associated with the concept of symptom, the metonymic with the origin of de sire.
www.brocku.ca /english/courses/4F70/terms.html   (5677 words)

  
 Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or psychology of the author or the work's relationship to literary history.
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 (Wellek and Warren, p.
In contrast, it views literary language as self-focused: its function is not to make extrinsic references, but to draw attention to its own "formal" features--that is, to interrelationships among the linguistic signs themselves.
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 Psychoanalytic Criticism
Thus, Wilson might claim that this character was "overdetermined." This term was used by Freud in his work on dream analysis and refers to the process by which one image takes on more than one meaning.
A Freudian literary critic might say that this process was also involved when Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness.
Eagleton discusses literary history and the various critical movements from a Marxist point of view.
www.lawrence.edu /dept/english/courses/60A/psycho.html   (1146 words)

  
 Literary interpretation: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Literary interpretation
Literary interpretation: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Literary interpretation
Works of Literature can be interpreted in a variety of different ways.
By examining Literature through such a wide array of viewpoints, greater understanding can be achieved.
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 Locating the Romantic Subject - Novalis with Winnicott - Gail M. Newman
Gail Newman's extensive introduction locates Novalis in the sociohistorical and philosophical context of the late 18th century, focusing on the theory of the subject that emerged at that time.
She outlines the relationship of psychoanalytic and literary interpretation from the Freudian to the French to her own Winnicottian perspective.
By providing an extended application of a psychoanalytic theory that is beginning to be acknowledged as an important enhancement to the field of psychoanalysis and literature, this work makes a significant contribution to the literature on German Romanticism.
wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/kritik/newmanlrs.htm   (207 words)

  
 ENG L202 1823 Literary Interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This course will introduce students to various methods of reading texts, most of them literary.
It will begin with a close reading of poetry and drama, emphasizing the principles of American formal analysis.
We will also read several novels in the class -- by James Joyce, Emily Bront=89, and Ian Fleming -- and consider various approaches to Cultural Studies in the last weeks of the course.
www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal97/eng/eng_l202_1823.html   (134 words)

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