10 Questions
What is the focus of Norman Holland's theories?
The reader
According to D.W. Winnicott, how does the relationship between reader and text take place?
In a 'transitional' or 'potential space'
How does Lacan treat the unconscious?
As a language
What did Sigmund Freud pioneer?
Psychoanalysis
Before 1950, what was the focus of psychoanalytic criticism on literary works?
Psychoanalyzing the individual author
What does Jacques Lacan view the dream as?
A form of discourse
What is the psychoanalytic approach to literature based on?
Theories of Freud
What did Freud characterize the artist's mind as?
"One urged on by instincts that are too clamorous"
What did literary works represent according to early psychoanalytic criticism?
Fantasies that allowed authors to indulge repressed wishes
After 1950, what did psychoanalytic critics shift their focus towards?
The psychology of the reader and the text
Test your understanding of the psychoanalytic approach to literature discussed in Murfin and Ray's (1998) work, which originated from Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's theories on the unconscious mind and human psychology.
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