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Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (Literature and Psychoanalysis Series) Bernard Paris
Publisher: NYU Press

The command introduces a theme whose relevance to survival and adaptation will become more evident once a larger population of human beings has emerged. The second half of the 20th century was marked by an intensive migration of academic psychoanalysis from departments of psychology to departments of literature and philosophy. In America and Psychoanalysis builds upon the basic postulate that symptoms manifest in a subject's behaviour (Freud, 1969b, 145), symptoms being the mother of psychoanalysis. Genesis rewards literary analysis because of its complex structure and plot, its concentrated characterization, its vibrant language and its rich but submerged themes, accompanied by what Robert Alter calls “the high fun of the act of literary communication… the lively inventiveness …[which] . In particular, many cultural industries have developed a fascination with the 'creative class' as the representation of its lifestyles, values, agency and other features have become a prominent theme in contemporary Russian literature, While scholars, including Slavicist Mikhail Epstein, have recently devoted much attention to the “crisis in the humanities,” our conference will turn to the many ways in which “the human” has been perceived, re-imagined, interrogated, and critiqued. According The Elements of Novel: Conflicts. Myths are by One key concept in mythological criticism is the archetype, “a symbol, character, situation, or image that evokes a deep universal response,” which entered literary criticism from Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. On the wake of psychoanalytic expansion (as a therapy, a profession and a way of understanding human beings), psychology - a recent profession - psychoanalyzed itself more and more, quickly leaving behind its psychotechnics origins. Psychology is a branch of science of which its object of study is human beings because psyche or psycho is defined as soul. Analyzing a literary work based on psychology is a possibility. Http://grove.ufl.edu/~bjparis/books/imagined/imagined.pdf Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature Preface By Bernard J. Paris What fascinates me most about literature is I have discussed Karen Horney's place in psychoanalytic thought in my 1994 biography of her, and I have defended various aspects of my psychological approach to literature in previous critical works (Paris 1974, 1978b, 1986a, 1991a, 1991b). Likewise Antônio Austregésilo, asylum doctor and first Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, wrote several self-help books for "nervous" people, where he explained, among other things, the psychoanalytic theory. This approach later led to a proliferation of psycho-biographies by post-Freudians. Literature, according to Moleong as quoted by Spadlex (2000:13), is the knowledge which is earned by human beings arise conduct and it is used to reflect and express experience. Myth is to be defined as a complex of stories-some no doubt fact, and some fantasy-which, for various reasons, human beings regard as demonstrations of the inner meaning of the universe and of human life.