Psychoanalytic Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism is an approach to Literary
Criticism influenced by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, that views a
literary work as an expression of the unconscious -- of the individual
psyche of its author or of the collective unconscious of a society or of
the whole human race.
People of the Movement
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Paul Ricour
Lacan
Related Movements
Recently Reader-Response
Criticism and critics of consciousness have applied the techniques
of Psychoanalytic Criticism to their analysis of the experience of
reading a work. That is they focus on the psyche of the reader.
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