PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO LITERATURE(3)

The Psychological Approach: Freud

Examples of the Psychological Approach in practice:

The Oedipus Complex in Hamlet (Oedipus Complex is when a boy is sexually attracted to his mother)
Rebellion against the father in Huckleberry Finn
Id versus Superego in the short story “Young Goodman Brown”
The consequences of sexual repression in The Turn of the Screw
Love and Death in the short story “Sick Rose”
Sexual Imagery in the poem “To His Coy Mistress” (Most often use of sexual imagery is finding phallic and yonic symbols)
Morality over the pleasure principle in the short story “Everyday Use”