Psychoanlytic Criticism

 

Thinking Activity : 

1. Apply Freud’s stages of psychosexual development to analyse the behaviour of a character from any one text (film / novel / play). Using any ONE defence mechanism (denial, repression, projection, etc.), analyse a character from a movie or literary text.Use the theory of the three stages of mind (Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious) to analyse any ONE this. 

• a movie

• a novel

• a short story

• a song

2. Apply Lacan’s concept of the Mirror Stage to a character who suffers from identity confusion. Analyse any ONE scene from a film or play using Lacan’s Three Orders. Using Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow, analyse a character or ghost figure from a film, novel, play, or folk narrative.

3. Apply any ONE Jungian archetype (Shadow, Hero, Trickster, Anima/Animus) to a character from a movie or literary text.

Reading Resources :

Beginning Theory by Peter Barry