"It is a literary approach where critics see the text as if it were a kind of dream. This means that the text represses its real (or latent) content behind obvious (manifest) content."

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Psychoanalytic_literary_criticism.html\

psychoanalytic literary criticism is described as analyzing a text that is not shown in the text but analyzing it in a deeper sense and reading between the lines in order to understand the thoughts of the characters and the real meaning of what they are saying.