Psycho Oedipus

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between psychoanalysis and literature can be articulated without reductive simplification” (1994). The process of shifting ones view from the later to the former involves a process of concentration and displacement. The critic uses many tools to analyze the text, such as language and symbolism, to arrive at the underlying thoughts and ideas.
Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychology and Psychoanalytical criticism, wrote several important essays on literature, which he used to explore the psyche of authors and characters, to explain narrative ambiguity, and to develop new concepts in psychoanalysis. His pupils and followers, such as Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan, were passionate readers themselves, and used literary examples as illustrations of important concepts in their work.
At its very simplest level, psychoanalytic literary criticism looks to the psychological state of the author or of a particularly interesting character, though, through this, it also has its faults. As Norman ...

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