LibGuides: ENGL 3010: Introduction to Literary Studies: Psychoanalytic

Key Individuals

Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan

Charles Mauron

Carl Jung

Karen Horney

Peter Brooks

Marshall Alcorn

Books in the Library

Psychoanalytic criticism focuses on literature as an expression of the inner workings of the human mind. Freud is viewed as the first psychoanalytic critic and used the same techniques for interpreting dreams to interpret literature. Jacques Lacan argued that the essential alienating experience of the human psyche is the acquisition of language.

Archetypal patterns in poetry; psychological studies of imagination by Bodkin, Maud.
Call Number: PN1031 .B63 1963
Freud and the humanities by Horden, Peregrine.
Call Number: BF173.F85 F725 1985
Freud: a critical re-evaluation of his theories by Fine, Reuben
Call Number: BF173.F85 F5
Psychoanalysis and the question of the text by Hartman, Geoffrey H.
Call Number: BF175 .E53 1978
The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Gardner, Shirley N. (ed.)
Call Number: PN98.P75 M67 1985
Writings on art and literature by Freud, Sigmund
Call Number: NX180.P7 F74 1997

Subject Headings and Keywords

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Criticism - Psychological Aspects
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Psychological Fiction