PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

BRING WHAT EXISTS AT THE UNCONSCIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS LEVEL UP TO

CONSCIOUSNESS
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Include your thesis or major claim
regarding the event in history you are
discussing.
Find a picture that captures the
historical event you are discussing and
provides a visual for your audience.
 SIGMAN FRUED
Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis. Freud redefined
sexuality to incorporate its infantile which later led to him to the
centralized principle, Oedipus complex.
He later developed a model of psychic structure balancing id, ego,
and super-ego.
HISTORY

Literary Criticism

360 BC to Present
Moral 1930s to present 1930s to present 1930s to present 1960s to present
Criticism/Dramatic New Criticism Psychoanalytical Marxism Reader Response
Structure

See Plato’s New because it is very Based on the work of Karl Marx and his work The readers’ response and
Republic and different from moral and Freud but includes regarding experiences
Aristotle's Poetics. dramatic construction other psychological socioeconomic classes
approaches
LITERARY TEXTS EXPRESS THE UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES AND
ANXIETIES OF THE AUTHOR
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FAMOUS QUOTE FROM THE EVENT, OR A GENERAL QUOTE
SUPPORTING YOUR THESIS OR CLAIM SENTENCE.

Author / Writer
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Evidence supporting this quote or an explanation as to why this quote is important.
TITLE CONNECTING THE VISUALS BELOW
Title goes here for the chart, graphic, or video you Title goes here for the chart, graphic, or video you
insert below. The chart, graphic, or video supports insert below. The chart, graphic, or video supports
your thesis or claim sentence. your thesis or claim sentence.
WORKS CITED
Purdue Writing Lab. “Psychoanalytic Criticism // Purdue Writing Lab.” Purdue Writing Lab,
owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criti
cism/psychoanalytic_criticism.html.
INFLUENCE & CONCLUSION
• Explain to your audience the influence this • Restate your thesis or claim sentence.
historical event had on the world
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