LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Female symbols
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Phallic symbols
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Male symbols
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Evidence of an Oedipus complex
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Detailed explanation-1: -FEMALE SYMBOL WHY? Such images include ponds, cups, and caves. Objects that are longer than they are wide are often seen as phallic symbols.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Freudian criticism, literary criticism that uses the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud to interpret a work in terms of the known psychological conflicts of its author or, conversely, to construct the author’s psychic life from unconscious revelations in his work.
Detailed explanation-4: -They tend to see concave images, such as ponds, flowers, cups, and caves as female symbols; whereas objects that are longer than they are wide are usually seen as phallic symbols. Dancing, riding, and flying are associated with sexual pleasure.