Psychoanalytic literary criticism

Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism or literary theory that , in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself, and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition.

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