PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM WRITTEN REPORT

GROUP 1
Members:
Lacdo-o, Dave
Rosales, Jerico
Sakay, Haui
Cavan, Marifher
Gonoy, Elijah
Reyes, Anne

Freudian Principles
– a practicing neurologist from Vienna in the late 19th century
- He concluded that the the unconscious plays a major role in what we do, feel, and say, although we are
not aware of its presence or operations

Six concept that have enormous impact on the way we understand what we read:

1. The Unconscious
– hidden from the conscious mind
- An individual may be unable to tell the difference between what is happenin and what she
thinks is happening.
2. Tripartite Psyche
- To describe the conscious and unconscious mind.
Freud divided the human psyche in the Parts
 ID – all hidden sexual desires, destructive force
 EGO – reality principle, make id’s energy non-destructive
 SUPEREGO – conscience, provide additional balance to Id

Carl Jung and Mythological Criticism

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

-once a favored pupil of Freud

- a swiss Physician, Psychiatrist and a Philosopher

-and an influential force in myth (archetypal) criticism

*Psychology critics are generally concerned with his concept of the process of individuation (the process
of discovering what makes one different from everyone else).
Human Psyche three parts:

- Personal Conscious a state of awareness of the present moment

- Personal Unconscious it refers to all information that is present within an individual’s mind, but
not readily available to conscious recall.

- Collective Unconscious it refers to the idea that a segment of the deepest unconscious mind is
genetically inherited and is not shaped by personal experience.

Jung labeled three parts of the self:

*Shadow - is our darker side

*Anima- the “soul-image”

*Persona- image that we show to others

Different Archetypes:

CHARACTERS IMAGES SITUATIONS

 Hero Colors Quest

 Scapegoat Numbers Death and Rebirth

 Outccast Water Initiation

 Devil Gardens

 Female Figures Circles

 Trickster Sun

Northrop Frye and Mythological Criticism

Northrop Frye and Mythological Criticism

 Frye’s scientific approach • In “The Anatomy of criticism”, Frye looks with dismay at literary criticism
dependent on personal judgment , instead, he offers a more scientific approach to criticism by
looking at “identifiable patterns in myth and archetype.”
 Frye's work is similar in that he identifies phases of myth and the archetype associated with four
phases

- Autumn

- Winter

- Spring

- Summer

• Northrop Frye developed a theory of literature based on myths and archetypes.

• He says literature is not reflection of life not expression of personality.

• Frye wanted to develop a unifying theory of criticism something like the Darwinian theory of evolution
for literature.

• He call it as a kind of literary anthropology

• He detects an archetype or myth in every kind of literature.

Jacques Lacan: An Update on Freud

JACQUES MARIE ÉMILE LACAN

*Jacques Lacan - was born April 13, 1901 at Paris, France and died September 9, 1981 because of Colon
Cancer.

- French Psychoanalyst who gained an international reputation as an original interpreter of

Sigmund Freud's work.

- He helped introduce Freudan Theory into France in the 1930's

*LACANIANISM - developed into a new psychoanalytic theory of human kind and spawned.

*Écrits - lecture for graduate level students.

- Lacan's remarks upset his colleagues not because he was interested in understanding the behavior of
the conscious personality by analyzing the unconscious, as the Freudians tried to do, but because he was
interested in defining the unconscious as the core of one's being.

*Freud's Concept of the unconscious as a force that determines our actions and beliefs shook the long-
held ideal that we are beings who can control our own destines.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS
- developing new ways of reading to accommodate his views of the self.

3 STAGES

•The REAL -psychological state characterized by unity and completeness.

- can only be understood in connection with the categories of the symbolic and imaginary.

•The IMAGINARY - the baby becomes aware of its body only in bits and pieces.

- what is visible at any given moment.

- creates fantasy images of himself and ideal objects of desire.

*other - not the actual self, only an image outside of the self.

*Other - remaining elements that exist outside the self, objects and people that the infant comes to
know before becoming aware of its own "other".

•The SYMBOLIC - entire field of human action and existence.

- when the infant realizes it is not connected to that which serves its needs, when it
recognizes the Other and its own other.

*Antirealism - invented various kinds of fantasy in order to free imagination from rational skepticism
and diminish the reality principle's hold on narrative.

*Jouissance - enjoyment, in terms both of rights and property, and of sexual orgasm.

Writing Psychological Criticism

Drafting and Revising