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  2. Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism or literary theory that, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself, and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition.

  3. John Fletcher (literary theorist) - Wikipedia

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    The book was described as a "gem" for students of psychoanalytic theory by psychoanalyst Peter Fonagy [7] and literary theorist Judith Butler described the chapters of the book as "distinguished not only by their enormous theoretical power and precision, but by Fletcher's nearly uncanny ability to read both literary and theoretical texts with ...

  4. Norman N. Holland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Identification (literature) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Hamlet and Oedipus - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet and Oedipus is a study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in which the title character's inexplicable behaviours are subjected to investigation along psychoanalytic lines.

  7. Lacanianism - Wikipedia

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    Lacanianism or Lacanian psychoanalysis is a theoretical system that explains the mind, behaviour, and culture through a structuralist and post-structuralist extension of classical psychoanalysis, initiated by the work of Jacques Lacan from the 1950s to the 1980s.

  8. Literary theory - Wikipedia

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    Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history , moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning . [ 1 ]

  9. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is one of the most important books in psychology. It was written by Freud in 1901 and it laid the basis for the theory of psychoanalysis. The book contains twelve chapters on forgetting things such as names, childhood memories, mistakes, clumsiness, slips of the tongue, and determinism of the unconscious.