PPT-PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Important Points Attribute latent or hidden meaning to unacknowledged desires in some person usually the author or source behind the character in the narrative or drama Can also focus on the response of the readers and usually accepts the influence of changing social history on the structures of sexual desire represented in a work. Notes for the Director. OVERVIEW. Every production engenders a response. Directors need to grow by listening seriously and . thoughfully. to the feedback your production generates. Performance. A production is never finished until an audience watches and . Schools of Literary Theory. What is Literary Criticism?. The study, analysis, and evaluation of a work of literature. Each school of criticism uses a different focus or angle of analysis. Source: Purdue Owl Writing Lab. CMST 450/550. Genre began as an absolute classification system in ancient Greece. Poetry, prose and performance had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. . During . Definition. The best definition that I could find for Mimetic Criticism is:. Mimetic criticism judges the literary work based in terms of the "truth" of its representation of the reality of the world and of human life and character.. Literary Criticism and Theory. Psychoanalytic Criticism. A Bunch of Psycho-babble?. Uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis to interpret literature. A part of everyday life. Internet and television has fueled our “knowledge” about psychoanalysis—no matter how simplistic. “Money . in Jane . Austen”. Robert D. . Hume. The Pennsylvania State University. Abstract. Recent scholars have demonstrated that Jane Austen does not depict a ‘bourgeois’ world. But the attention paid to socio-economic issues of rank or class in the novels has been accompanied by relatively little specificity about the magnitude and buying power of particular sums, especially incomes. Austen lived a very straitened life in economic terms, and she was, unsurprisingly, hyperconscious of money. Each novel poses economic questions, but the difficulty of determining present-day-equivalent buying power makes it hard to judge the magnitude of the sums involved. While recognizing that ‘retail price’ and ‘average earnings’ may diverge as measures of inflation by a factor of more than thirteen, this essay argues that a multiplier somewhere between 100 and 150 produces a generally plausible equivalent today. It also argues that attention to the size and buying power of the specified incomes of Austen’s principals underlines their elite status. Bingley’s £4000–5000 per annum puts him in the top one-tenth of 1% of the population, and . Not Dead Yet. Myths in Clinical Psychology. Freud. Sexual Abuse, Hysteria, Women theorists. (Horney, Anna Freud, Mahler, Jacobson). Psychoanalysis is dead. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, also known as Psychodynamic Psycho-therapy, is dead. Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism-Freud. Psychoanalytic criticism builds on Freudian theories of psychology.. Austrian Psychologist. While in a hospital in 1890, he noticed that many patients were showing abnormal behavior without physical abnormalities. Most controversial, most abused, least appreciated form. Associated with Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) and his followers. Creative writing (like dreaming) represents the (disguised) fulfillment of a (repressed) wish or fear. Not Dead . Yet. Paradigms 1. Viewpoints. Models. Perspectives. Approaches. Paradigms 2. Same behaviour can be viewed in different ways by different paradigms. Determine the causes, treatments, what should be studied. It . fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. . It . calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” . - Winston Churchill. What is Constructive Criticism?. Feedback about someone else’s work. Discuss Marxist View of . The Giving Tree. Mr. Murphy’s Story Time! (part 2) – . Green Eggs and Ham. Notes: Psychoanalytic Criticism. Supplemental Reading: Psychoanalytic Criticism. Discuss Psychoanalytic View of . lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to . Literary theory and criticism are interpretive tools that help us think more deeply and insightfully about the literature that we read. Over time, different schools of literary criticism have developed, each with its own approaches to the act of reading..