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Chapter5 Psychoanalytic criticism

Chapter5 Psychoanalytic criticism. Beginning Theory Peter Barry. Presentation Outline. Introduction Sigmund Freud Theories critics Jacques Lacan Theories critics Q&A. Introduction. What does Psychoanalytic criticism do?

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Chapter5 Psychoanalytic criticism

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  1. Chapter5Psychoanalytic criticism Beginning Theory Peter Barry

  2. Presentation Outline • Introduction • Sigmund Freud • Theories • critics • Jacques Lacan • Theories • critics • Q&A

  3. Introduction • What does Psychoanalytic criticism do? • They use psychoanalysis techniques in the interpretation of literature. • What does Psychoanalysis do? • Psychoanalysis aims to cure mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind.

  4. Sigmund Freud(I) • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),Austrian • Unconscious • Three levels of the personality • Super-ego >> conscience • Ego >> consciousness • Id >>unconscious • Sublimation • Libido

  5. Sigmund Freud (II) • Screen memory • A trivial or inconsequential memory to obliterate a more significant one. • Freudian slip • Dream work • Displacement - association • Condensation • Critics ‘penis envy’ >negative views on woman

  6. What Freudian critics do? • Stressing the distinction between conscious and unconscious. • Uncovering the unconscious motives of characters. • Seeing in the literary work an embodiment of classic psychoanalytic conditions.

  7. Jacques Lacan(I) • Jacques Lacan (1901-1981),French psychoanalyst • ‘The nucleus of our being’ • Unconscious is structured like a language • Descartes ’I think, therefore I am.’ • Lacan ’I am where I think not.’ • Reject the conventional view of characterization in literature

  8. Jacques Lacan (II) • Unconscious is the ‘kernel of our being,’ • Language exist as a structure before the individual enters into it. no distinction between self and other Imaginary 6-8 monthes Unified, being separate from the world Mirror stage Language system symbolic The beginning of socialization

  9. What Lacanian critics do? • What Lacanian critics do • They pay close attention to unconscious motives and feelings. They search out those of the text itself. This is another way of defining the process 'deconstruction’ • They demonstrate the presence in the literary work of Lacanian symptoms or phrases. • They treat the literay text in terms of a series of broader Lacanian orientations. • They see the literary text as an enactment of Lacanian views.

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