Psychoanalysis conforms that literature is important because of how it looks deeper into texts to find meaning. Psychoanalytic criticism focuses on using psychology, sociology, religion, and history to show the collective unconsciousness of the human race. The main focus is to show how the authors’ shows his/her subconscious desires through their writings. This particular criticism uses strategies to learn about the authors’ personal psychology and how the characters portray their psychological mind states as well as the authors. In other words, a reader who uses psychoanalytic criticism is not concerned with what the author intended.
A relevant concept in psychoanalytic criticism is the archetype, which is a symbol or pattern that is constantly being used over time, also the concept of symbolism that means using other objects to represent ideas. Another important concept is fixation, when someone becomes obsessed with someone else or another object. In past 200 years we have evolved to using psychoanalytic criticism starting with the play Oedipus the King.
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Review of Literature
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, was the first person to apply a different spin to psychoanalysis criticism. Freud introduced one of his most famous concepts using Oedipus the King. That concept is the Oedipus complex which is Freud’s way of explaining that everyone had a sexual desire for their mother and wanted to murder their father as a child between the ages of three and five. This stage has been used as a staple in the argument of how sexual identity is formed. Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages of development shows people that they must go through each stage to not have the fate of
A relevant concept in psychoanalytic criticism is the archetype, which is a symbol or pattern that is constantly being used over time, also the concept of symbolism that means using other objects to represent ideas. Another important concept is fixation, when someone becomes obsessed with someone else or another object. In past 200 years we have evolved to using psychoanalytic criticism starting with the play Oedipus the King.
II. …show more content…
Review of Literature
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, was the first person to apply a different spin to psychoanalysis criticism. Freud introduced one of his most famous concepts using Oedipus the King. That concept is the Oedipus complex which is Freud’s way of explaining that everyone had a sexual desire for their mother and wanted to murder their father as a child between the ages of three and five. This stage has been used as a staple in the argument of how sexual identity is formed. Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages of development shows people that they must go through each stage to not have the fate of