Student at University of Sialkot (USKT) Insta: @rehan_music

1. Psychoanalysis and
Psychoanalytical Criticism
Submitted by: Rehan and Neelam
Roll no: 20203009-14, 018
Course: Intro to Literary Critical Theories
Dept: BS English 6th Semester

2. Content Page
Psychoanalysis
• Conscious
• Subconscious
• Unconscious
• Suppressed Desires
Psychoanalytical Criticism
• ID
• Ego
• Super Ego
• Oedipus and Electra Complex

3. Psychoanalysis
• Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and pioneer of
psychoanalysis, 1890s..
• Method or therapy to deal with unconscious thoughts,
feelings and desires..
• It aims to make the unconscious conscious, release of
emotions or healing..
• It helps dealing with psycholinguistics..

4. Three Stages of Mind
Conscious
Subconscious
Unconscious

5. Conscious
• Immediate awareness that we experience..
• Actions we do with our total control on them are part of
our consciousness..
• We take input through our senses, analyze the information
and then act accordingly..
• Our conscious thoughts, words and actions..

6. Subconscious
• Storehouse of all our experiences and memories that are
in our minds..
• It is the stored information that we can recall..
• It is the information that is just below the information of
awareness or consciousness..
• Student trying to recall the answer of question in exams..

7. Unconscious
• Thoughts, memories, feelings and desires that are
uncontrolled..
• Unconscious is in depth of mind, below the level of
subconscious..
• They have a significant influence on our behavior..
• Our experiences that forms beliefs and fears..

8. Suppressed Desires
• Any desire that comes in our mind but we cease it..
• We control it and do not fulfill it..
• The desire is still there in our mind but suppressed..
• The desires could be immoral and unethical due to which
we would cease them and won’t act accordingly..
• Like the Oedipus complex and Electra complex

9. Psychoanalytical Criticism
• It is used to understand the unconscious elements in literary
texts..
• It doesn’t focus on text’s structure and form (structuralism
and formalism)..
• We focus on character’s behavior (conscious and
unconscious) through text..
• Personality of author is determined via text..

10. Three Components of Mind
ID
Ego
Super-ego

11. ID
• It is the source of all psychic/mental energy and is
present from birth..
• This component is completely unconscious..
• ID is driven by pleasure principle and requires immediate
gratification of desires..
• If ID is not satisfied the person gets anxiety, depression
or tension..

12. Ego
• It develops from ID and is based on reality principle..
• This component is completely conscious..
• It is the personality component that deals with the reality
and helps dealing with our desires..
• It balances the demands of ID and Super-ego according
to real life situations..

13. Super-ego
• It is related to our social and moral values that we acquire
from our society..
• This component is subconscious..
• It helps us understand and differentiate between what is
morally right and wrong..
• It provides guidelines for making judgements..

14. Oedipus and Electra Complex
Oedipus Complex:
• A boy/son’s sexual desire towards his mother..
Electra Complex
• A girl/daughter’s sexual desire towards her father..

15. The End
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