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WorksheetsLit Endgame
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
-moral censoring agent
- conscience, self—image, pride
- moral restrictions or repression of Id.
id
super ego
pre-conscious
ego
According to Freud, long (erect) images (towers, snakes, knives,etc.) represent
unconscious images
female figures
male figures
repression
