1. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
The Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud
“It was not I, but the poets who discovered the unconscious.’

2. The major criticism of psychological analysis results from the overuse of erotic symbolism by psychoanalytic critics.
Concave images = female or womb symbols: ponds, cups, caves, wells etc.
Images that have greater length than diameter = male or phallic symbols: swords, knives, towers, snakes, arrows, keys etc.

5. Freud asserts that: The unconscious mind is pre-eminent
The psyche is organized into three zones: id, ego, and superego
Dreams are manifestations of the unconscious mind
Infantile behavior is basically erotic
Neurosis is closely related to creativity

6. The Unconscious Mind

7. Psychic Zones: Id, Ego, Superego
ID – the pleasure principle
EGO – the reality principle
SUPEREGO – the morality principle

8. Dreams
Deep hypnosis
Unintentional expressions
Dream analysis

9. Infantile Behavior Oral stage of development [Birth to one year]
Anal stage of development [ One to three years]
Phallic stage of development [Three to six years]
Oedipus complex
Electra complex

10. Neurosis and Creativity
Freud believed that literature was his laboratory
Psychoanalyze writers by viewing their works as expressions of neurotic tension produced by frustrated and repressed id drives
Psychological result of characters’ infancy and childhood problems
Repressions and complexes of society that writers are able to reveal

11. Hieronymus Bosch

12. Salvador Dali

13. Jackson Pollock

14. H. R. Giger