- Object is to psychoanalyze the author or a specific character in a book by using steps of psychoanalysis, originally developed by Sigmund Freud
- Critics may view specific characters as actual psychological case studies
- Identifies different Freudian concepts such as Oedipus complex, Freudian slips, and Id, ego and superego, etc.
- Oedipus complex - the desire to be sexually involved with your parent of the opposite sex; derived from the story of Oedipus who kills his father as a child because he wants all the attention from his mother and feels threatened by his father
- Freudian slips - n error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought guided by the super-ego and the rules of correct behavior
- Id, ego and superego - three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described.
- id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends
- super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role
- can stop you from doing certain things your id wants you to do
- ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego
- Jungian: feministic approaches to psychoanalysis; often considered the romance theory whereas Freud is the comedy theory
This journal talks about the different views and powers between Rochester and Jane Eyre. Examples are sexual and social dependence, and the male view of defining women as objects.
In the Window-seat: Vision and Power in Jane Eyre
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