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Psychoanalytic Criticism
Psychoanalysis is a form of therapy that aims to cure mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind.
Psychoanalitic Criticism Psychoanalitic Criticism
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It is a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature.
Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan
Sigmund believes that every character we see in a story is the representation of writers unconscious mind. According to Lacan, the unconscious is linguistic in structure, based on the basic poles of the language identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, which are: metaphor and metonymy.
What Freudian Psychoanalytic Critics do What Lacanian Critics do
Pay close attention to unconscious motives and feeling of the author or characters.
They pay close attention to unconscious motives and feelings, but instead of excavating for those of the author or characters, they search out those of the text itself.
