I started a blog campaign to get others to comment on my blog in regards to my subject topic which is, Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Showing just what kind of person Shakespeare is and how we can see more of his personality and character in his later writings than his earlier ones. This blog is a continuation of that campaign to encourage fellow bloggers to contribute the new found knowledge from this semester on this topic. I have had some GREAT response so keep it coming!
Like all forms of literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism can yield useful clues to the sometime baffling symbols, actions, and settings in a literary work; however, like all forms of literary criticism, it has its limits. For one thing, some critics rely on psycho criticism as a "one size fits all" approach, when in fact no one approach can adequately illuminate a complex work of art. As Guerin, et al. put it in A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature Good psychoanalytic criticism instructs and delights its readers in the experiencing of our own human nature. According to the book “The Rise of the Novel” by Ian Watt, the human experience is the single most important reason people read (Holland 2003).
Remember: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism studies how the mind works and how we see it in literature. It studies three minds in relation to the text which are, author, characters, and reader.
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: An Unknowingly Popular Literary Criticism in Class?
Many in the class have already done Psychoanalysis Literary Criticism and maybe didnt even know about it. Below I made a list of blogs that have already done some type of Psychoanalysis Literary Criticism that I have drawn on for my research thus far.
Joanna Barker
"Today, I think the liveliest psychoanalytic criticism addresses questions of gender and personality in the personality of the author and, to me, most interestingly, in the mind of the reader (Holland 1975; Flynn and Schweickart 1986)."
David Tertipes
"Nowadays we have psychoanalytically-oriented courses in literature and classes oriented to analyzing reader-response (Holland and Schwartz 1975; Holland 1977, 1978b; Berman 1994)."
Dr. Burton
"Teacher In such teaching, a critic or teacher can help readers understand what they are bringing to a given work of literature (Holland 1977)."
John Kendrick
"It seems to me that the direction psychoanalytic theory, including its theory of literature, needs to take in the twenty-first century is to integrate psychoanalytic insights with the new discoveries coming from brain research and cognitive science (Holland 2003)."
Max Ogles
Mandy Teerlink
Brooke A Knutson
Bryan Mulkern
We use this literary criticism WAY more than we think and so we should understand more about it. Now comment on what you have learned about my focus (defined above)on this blog post!?
One Last Interesting Fact about Psychoanalysis Literary Criticism
The man who invented Psychoanalysis Literary Criticism, Sigmund Freud, was a fan and critic of Shakespeare. In an book called "The Oedipus Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet’s Mystery" by Earnest Jones, he makes the claim that a major influence behind Freud's Oedipus theory was the Shakespeare's play "the Hamlet". Shakespeare had always had a major influence on Freud. Biographers say that Freud read Shakespeare at age 8 and read him over and over again. Shakespeare’s genius not only changed the stage and writing, among other things, his influence change the way people read books entirely!
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/bierman/elsinore/freud/freudsphinx.html
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