Lit Endgame

In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as:

• Female symbols

• Male Symbols

• Super-id

• Oedipus

The psychological Criticism includes the following theories:

• Oedipus Complex

• Id-SuperId-Self

• The Hero and The Quest

• Elektra Complex

Theory that expresses the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses.

• Psyche

• Psychoanalitic

• Oedipus Complex

• Ozymandias Complex

Main thinkers / developers of the psychological Criticism

• Sigmund Freud / Carl Jung

• T.S. Elliot / Sigmund Freud

• Virginia Woolf / Carl Jung

• T.S. Elliot / Mary Shelley

Three psychic zones by Freud include

• Id-Ego-Me

• Id - Super Ego - Ego

• Ego - Sum - Cogito

• Id - Self - Other

Blaming our own faults, deficiencies, inadequacies on others.

• Rationalisation

• Regression

• Scapegoating

• Aggression

This literary theory helps us in

• narrating a person's life by our analysis

• understanding human behaviors, motivation and causality.

• analyzing texts with our minds

• understanding the human emotions

The first (Core) theory of the Psycho Analysis is

• The human mind is already filled with images and thoughts which procedence we know little of

• Our inner thoughts are strictly related to the experiences we have when we are alone

• Our actions correspond to our beliefs

• Most of our actions (mental processes) are motivated by psychic forces over which we have little control.

something very difficult to revivte mocceesfully blocked or repressed. Comes out in

perverse ways.

• conscious

• unconscious

• pre-conscious

• consciousness

-lawless, self—destructive

-pleasure principle

-no rational order / organisation/ will

-impulse to obtain gratification of instinctual needs

• id

• super ego

• conscious

• ego