What’s psychoanalytic lit crit?

Psychoanalytic literary criticism applies psychoanalytic theory to literature, using concepts such as the conscious and unconscious mind, id, ego, superego, and the Oedipus complex to gain a deeper understanding of a work. Childhood experiences and dream analysis are also used to uncover latent content. Psychoanalytic literary criticism is a way of analyzing and interpreting literary […]

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