1. POSTMODERNISM-PSYCHOANALYSIS
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POSTMODERNISM-PSYCHOANALYSIS

2. Postmodernism is a set of ideas and has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s although it’s not clear exactly when postmodernism begins
Thinking about postmodernism is thinking about modernism, the movement from which postmodernism seems to grow or emerge.

3. Postmodernism, like modernism, follows most of those same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness.

4. Post modern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject

5. Psychoanalysis As a reading method
It tries to read unconscious symptoms in a text
While reading the text, the reader tries to find the contradiction, repetition

6. Supremacy unconsciousness over consciousness
Dynamic relationship Id-Ego-Superego
Oedipus phase, penis-envy, displacement, repression
Life instinct and death instinct (death wish)

7. Id works with pleasure principle
Ego works with reality principle , trying to meet Id’s need.
Superego works with morality principle

8. Literary text is assumed to be like hysteria which reveal or hide trauma of the author’s psyche
The analysis can only rely on the symptoms in the text

9. Character can be viewed as symbolic manifestation of certain psyche element (Id, Ego, Superego) the relation dynamic of which with other character is seen in conflict
The other textual elements which can be analyzed using psychoanalysis are : theme, title, point of view, figurative language, etc.