Psychological Psychoanalytical criticism Flashcards
Austrian neurologist;
Father of Psychoanalytic Theory
and Psychiatric Therapy
Sigmund Freud
attempt to unseat deeply rooted memories bound to conflict, insecurity,
trauma and the like.
Anna O.
Talking cure
counseling
THE FREUDIAN MIND
Is the part of the mind that interacts with the outside world.
Conscious Mind
THE FREUDIAN MIND
is the expunging of the conscious mind of all our unhappy psychological events.
Repression
THE FREUDIAN MIND
is made up of the impulses and instincts that dictate our behavior without us knowing about it.
Unconscious
TRIPARTITE PSYCHE
is devoted to gratifying all our prohibited
desires.
Id
TRIPARTITE PSYCHE
implies guilt because we are socially programmed to feel guilty when we break a
social rule.
Superego
TRIPARTITE PSYCHE
plays referee between the id and the
superego.
Ego
FREUDIAN THEORIES
is the treatment of human beings or animals as a thing.
Objectification
FREUDIAN THEORIES
Fears/wishes we harbor within us
that unconsciously shape our behaviors.
Primal Fears
FREUDIAN THEORIES
is the process of repressing or restraining memories, fantasies, urges, or
insecurities that threaten to unseat the
conceptions of ourselves we’d most like to present to the world.
Sublimation
FREUDIAN THEORIES
lies partially in the unconscious during
“gestation period.
Latency
FREUDIAN THEORIES
When we are asleep, the unconscious
mind is free to express itself and it does so in
the form of dreams.
Dreams
FREUDIAN THEORIES
use of a “safe” person,
event or object as a “stand-in” to represent a more threatening person, event, or object.
Dream displacement
FREUDIAN THEORIES
is the transference of unwanted feelings
about ourselves onto someone or something else rather than coming to terms with them ourselves.
Projection
FREUDIAN THEORIES
is the reassigning of particular
energies or interests that may threaten our status quo onto someone or something else.
Displacement
FREUDIAN THEORIES
is accounted for by the alarming degree of self-destructive behavior observed in
individuals.
Death drive theory
FREUDIAN THEORIES
It describes a child’s feelings of
desire for their opposite-gendered parent and
hostility toward the same-gendered parent.
Oedipus complex
LOCUS OF CONTROL
life is defined by the outside forces
such as family, friends, social norms and the general
environment.
High external
LOCUS OF CONTROL
life is defined by forces inside of us
such as through intellect, skill, will, discipline, good
luck, etc.
High internal
Literary texts, like dreams, express the secret
unconscious desires and anxieties of the author.
Psychoanalytical Criticism
The literary text is a manifestation of the author’s
own neuroses.
Psychoanalytical Criticism
Textual “talk therapy”
Psychoanalytical Criticism
