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Freud wrote several important essays on literature, which he used to explore the psyche of authors and characters, to explain narrative mysteries, and to develop new concepts in psychoanalysis (for instance, Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva and his influential readings of the Oedipus myth and Shakespeare's Hamlet in The Interpretation of Dreams).
Poems in Persons: An Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Literature (1973; rev. ed. 2000) [14] proposes a very different model of literary processing based on a psychoanalytic theory of identity. The central argument of the text is that writers create texts as expressions of their personal identities and readers re-create their own identities ...
James Hillman - founder of Archetypal Psychology; James Hollis - psychoanalyst; Karen Horney – psychoanalyst; Luce Irigaray – philosopher; Susan Sutherland Isaacs – psychoanalyst; Edith Jacobson – psychoanalyst; Arthur Janov; Adrian Johnston – philosopher; Ernest Jones – psychoanalyst; Carl Jung – founder of analytical psychology ...
Psychoanalysis [i] is a theory and field of research developed by Sigmund Freud.It describes the human mind as an apparatus that emerged along the path of evolution and consists mainly of three instances: a set of innate needs, a consciousness to satisfy them by ruling the muscular apparatus, and a memory for storing experiences that arises during this.
His defining influences are literary; he was inspired to become a psychoanalyst after reading Carl Jung's autobiography and he has always believed psychoanalysis to be closer to poetry than medicine: "For me, psychoanalysis has always been of a piece with the various languages of literature—a kind of practical poetry."
Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis. He was influenced by fellow Yale scholar, Paul de Man, to whom his book Reading for the Plot is dedicated. [3] His 2022 book Seduced By Story was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. [4]
Psychoanalytic literary criticism is a method of reading and analysing texts through the lens of psychoanalytic principles. [3] It is largely informed by Freudian psychoanalysis, but has since grown into its own field in literary theory, influenced by the work of psychoanalysts such as Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan.
Josh Cohen (born 1970) is a British psychoanalyst, academic and author. [1] Between 1996 and 2024, he taught in the English department at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was appointed Professor of Modern Literary Theory in 2010. [2]