... female authors who have inherited patriarchal values - bury in their books. To read the canon is perforce to identify as male. It insists on its universality in specifically male terms. As she puts it aptly, "Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it by changing the consciousness of ... structures of literature by women. Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career; literary history; and, of cou...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... theories in the field of psychology, is credited with key turning points in his field when he revolutionized the field of psychoanalysis. Many of his theories became major ideas within literary criticisms. Freud read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and it immediately determined that the underlying ideas in this drama would become a large part of his studies. The tragedies and misfortunes of Oedipus ... for the parent of the opposite sex and the death of the parent of the same sex, and is today believed to be manifest only in very young children. In terms of the play, the Oedipus Complex is extre...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . In the novel, these three personality components are critical. Also, the key concepts of primal fears and repression are operated throughout the text which is the part of the psychoanalytic literary lens. According to the Freud's model of the psyche, Id is a component of human psyche which lies entirely under the unconscious state of mind. Id is driven by the pleasure ... , didn't you? But I'm no fool any more. I know when I have information that might be dangerous" (11.205). In the story, Leper considers Gene his best friend, as Ego comes to terms with Super Ego. Gene however shows the...

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School