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1 What is a psycho-analytical reading?
What The Freud? What is a psycho-analytical reading?

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3 As a reading “Argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author” For example: William Steig, who wrote Shrek, constructed his characters around the acceptance of abnormality therefore he too may of feared his own abnormality or was a part of an epoch, modern society, where conformity is important.

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5 “One may psychoanalyse a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche.” So, Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote Finding Nemo, may have projected his own parental issues into his film.

6 Superego: The superego's function is to control the id's impulses, especially those which society forbids, such as sex and aggression. It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn to moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection. Ego: The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. It is the decision making component of personality. Ideally the ego works by reason, whereas the id is chaotic and totally unreasonable. Id: The id is the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts.

7 The author's own childhood traumas, family life, sexual conflicts, fixations, and such will be traceable within the behaviour of the characters in the literary work. But psychological material will be expressed indirectly, disguised, or encoded (as in dreams) through principles such as "symbolism" (the repressed object represented in disguise), "condensation" (several thoughts or persons represented in a single image), and "displacement" (anxiety located onto another image by means of association).

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9 Despite the importance of the author here, psychoanalytic criticism is similar to New Criticism in not concerning itself with "what the author intended." But what the author never intended (that is, repressed) is sought. The unconscious material has been distorted by the censoring conscious mind. The author of the terminator yearned for what?

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