Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.
Psychoanalysis involves having the patient speak freely about his childhood experiences and dreams in a patient-analyst setting to treat emotional and psychological disorders.
The part of the psyche that receives and stores irrational thoughts, fears, and passions.
Id, Ego, and Superego
Neurosis: It refers to the internal battle between the ego and the id.
The author's unconscious mind was reflected in his work of literature.
The psychoanalytic perspective views artists, including authors, as neurotic.
In creating their art, authors escape many of the outward manifestations and effects of neurosis.
Sigmund Freud believed that an author's primary motivation for writing is to satisfy secret desires.
A forbidden wish could have developed during the author's infancy and was immediately suppressed and discarded into the unconscious.
Freud declares that the literary work is the author's dream or fantasy.
The mind's censor, the ego, is often unable to acknowledge the actual wish if it is too strong or forbidden.
A psychoanalytic critic believes the story's true meaning can be revealed when the real, uncensored desire is brought to the surface.
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