AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of “reading” employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Psychoanalytic Lens A psychoanalytic criticism argues that an author’s unconscious desires and anxieties can be found in literary texts. Ultimately, any type of literature (from poetry to prose) acts as a manifestation of an author’s internal desires and thoughts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The psychological lens is a set of beliefs used to analyze the mental state of a person and how their mental state affects their actions.

Detailed explanation-4: -An example showing a psychoanalytic focus on literary characters is Frederick Crews’s reading in The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes (1966). Frederick Crews, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).