... all directly or indirectly concerned with the nature of the unconscious mind. Like psychoanalysis, the criticism seeks to find evidence of unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilt, ambivalences, etc. within a literary work. While using psychoanalytic criticism, there are few key questions that can serve as guidelines in psychoanalyzing a work: 1. What unconscious motives are operating in the main characters; what core issues ... are thereby illustrated; and how do these core issues structure or inform the piece? 2. Can characters' behavior, narrative events, and/or images be e...

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... that it is not a novel. Myself, I prefer to call it a narrative" (On Writing 12). Cather's preference anticipated an important reformulation of the criticism of fiction: the body of literary theory, called "narratology," articulated in the 1960s by French structuralist writers. Narratology's purpose, according to Gerard Genette, is to provide critical categories "a little trimmer than the traditional entities, such ... seems to arrange itself as a preparation or rehearsal for fulfilling biological death or significant narrative closure. This preparation involves a sequence of confrontati...

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... techniques he employed in writing most of his stories. The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation and ... inner feelings and thoughts which oozed out on the paper and if possible to argue about his conscious or unconscious intentions for writing this particular tale. 2. Gothic Literature The Gothic, a l...

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... to development than sex.""(Freud, Civilization) They also said a person does not stop developing after they turn eighteen. "Freud did develop another theory that many author's have described in their literary works which included the Id, Ego, and Superego. The Id, Ego, and Superego dealt with how the mind worked conscientiously and unconsciously. It also described the behavior of the human ... our search for happiness- . (Freud, 33). " The fully functional human being of Carl Rogers or the healthy specimen of Abraham maslow has no place in Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. In terms of r...

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... to development than sex.""(Freud, Civilization) They also said a person does not stop developing after they turn eighteen. "Freud did develop another theory that many author's have described in their literary works which included the Id, Ego, and Superego. The Id, Ego, and Superego dealt with how the mind worked conscientiously and unconsciously. It also described the behavior of the human ... our search for happiness- . (Freud, 33). " The fully functional human being of Carl Rogers or the healthy specimen of Abraham maslow has no place in Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. In terms of r...

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... to development than sex."(Freud, Civilization) They also said a person does not stop developing after they turn eighteen. "Freud did develop another theory that many author's have described in their literary works which included the Id, Ego, and Superego. The Id, Ego, and Superego dealt with how the mind worked conscientiously and unconsciously. It also described the behavior of the human ... our search for happiness" . (Freud, 33). " The fully functional human being of Carl Rogers or the healthy specimen of Abraham maslow has no place in Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. In terms of ra...

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... applied here. Freud simplifies it in three divisions ideal-ego (Id), ego ideal and super-ego, explaining the way which these are positions of identification for the subject and he terms the fundamental alienation of the subject in identification (Cowie, 1997). According to Freud, the Id is the true unconscious. It is also based on the pleasure principle. The ego ideal ... the three basic components of the human mind which Freud proposed (Hayward, 2002). The ego ideal is being applied when we see Blue Velvet consists of many prohibited sexual fantasies: Literary studies on audience perce...

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