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  2. Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Cold reading - Wikipedia

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    Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. [1] Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line ...

  4. Narrative psychology - Wikipedia

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    Narrative psychology is not a single or well-defined theory. It refers to a range of approaches to stories in human life and thought. [3] In narrative psychology, a person's life story becomes a form of identity as how they choose to reflect on, integrate and tell the facts and events of their life not only reflects, but also shapes, who they ...

  5. Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia

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    The reader fills in the "gaps" or areas of "indeterminacy" of the text. Although the "text" is written by the author, its "realization" (Konkritisation) as a "work" is fulfilled by the reader, according to Iser. Iser uses the analogy of two people gazing into the night sky to describe the role of the reader in the production of textual meaning.

  6. Psychological fiction - Wikipedia

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    In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and explain the story. [1]

  7. How to Analyze People on Sight - Wikipedia

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    In the book, the authors divided all people into five categories based on fat, chest size and the inner lungs and heart, muscles, bones and thinking part of the brain and gave their own description of their mentality and work, and also gave their own research-based advice on social and business deal with them and about their profession and marriage.

  8. How to Read a Book - Wikipedia

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    How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.

  9. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    A story that is about a Czech family with a daughter who is suffering from bipolar disorder. [24] Blepharospasm, 2011 novel by Harutyun Mackoushian. A story that focuses on a boy suffering from anxiety. [25] A Better Place, 2011 [26] novel by Mark A. Roeder. The Heart of Darkness, 2014 novel by Dominic Lyne. Through conversations with his ...