Sigmund Freud Literary Criticism Analysis

This bibliography will contain a list and description of sources on the topic of the Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Literary Criticism. This theory of criticism is based off looking at literary works through a psychological perspective. I am doing research on this top to have a better understanding of the kind of concepts and theory’s of psychoanalysis that are behind the make up of this theory of literary criticism. Most of the concepts and theories of this theory of literary criticism comes from the psychologist Sigmund Freud, who contributed greatly to the advancement of psychology. Through his discoveries of psychoanalysis he created a more abstract way for psychologist to study metal problems; for example the Electra Complex, Oedipus …show more content…
Sigmund Freud was a very influential psychologist who would listen to his patients talk freely about their early childhood experiences and dreams to develop a better understanding of how human minds operate. Freud believed that desires are developed, usually during infancy, are suppressed into the unconscious mind and eventually develop into the motivation for the way we think, act, and feel. This unconscious desire in authors is the origin for their works of literature. His theory concluded that the unconscious mind was developed based off of the experiences, knowledge, and dreams one would experiences during their early years of childhood. These experiences were then help in their mind, and later determined the different types of personality and fixations one could have. If we are capable of applying the same type of analysis on character development and the author, as that Sigmund Freud did on his patients, we are then applying the psychoanalytic theory of literary criticism. This article The Contribution of Psychological Theories in Literary Criticism, can be marked as a reliable sources because it has an attachments of all the legitimate resources in which the article’s foundation was based off of. It also proclaims that “Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu & Dr. Mukaddes Demirok, Near East University, Cyprus”. Dr. …show more content…
It was very easily analyzed through the psychoanalytic theory perspective because the relationship between Hamlet and his mother. Using this literary criticism can form a more meaningful and deep analysis of the characters within the play. The Oedipus Complex is the theory that a young boy reaches a developing mental stage where they lust after their mothers, and see themselves as love rivals with their fathers, and want to remove their fathers from picture. This theory concludes that it is the same for young girls towards their mothers, and this was called the Electra Complex. Understanding these theories can help understand the character development of Hamlet and his relationship with his mother in a more abstract and meaningful way. A critique using this theory of literary criticism could conclude that Hamlets suppressed attachment with his mother drives his decision to want kill his uncle for replacing him in receiving his mother love and attention. This source is also credible because it comes from the scholarly database EBSCOhost database from the Mira Costa College website. I believe that this scholarly article gave a more broader understanding of the topic of this theory of literary criticism, and provide a lot of creditable knowledge and unique