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Psychonalytic Criticism: The Unconscious.

The Oedipal Conflict.


-Sigmund Freud
Defence Mechanism: a-Selective perception.
b-Selective memory.
c-Denial.
d-Avoidance.
e-Displacement.
h-Projection.
i-Regression.

Freud’s Dream Theory A-Manifest content.


B-Latent content.

Death Drive
Concept of Sexuality -Phallic stage
- Castration anxiety
Understanding How Psychoanalytic Criticism works:
Bressler, C. E. (1994). Literary Criticism: An Introduction to
Theory and Practice. Prentice-Hall, Inc.

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