Objectives Today I will learn… How to view and annotate a text with a specific literary lens. How to utilize extended time to make up any missing or poor assignments. I will know I have learned this when… I am able to use the Psychoanalytical Lens to analyze a given text. I am able to use extended time wisely to improve my current grade.

Vocabulary Id: the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are. Ego: a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance. Superego: the part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers. Oedipus Complex: a Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex. (The term was originally applied to boys, the equivalent in girls being called the Electra complex .). Unconscious: the part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions. Desires: strongly wish for or want (something). Defenses: the action of defending from or resisting attack.

Who was Sigmund Freud? Born in Freiberg, now known as Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856 After graduation, Freud promptly set up a private practice and began treating various psychological disorders. Considering himself first and foremost a scientist, rather than a doctor, he endeavored to understand the journey of human knowledge and experience.

What is Psychoanalytical Criticism? Freud believed that our unconscious was influenced by childhood events. Freud organized these events into developmental stages involving relationships with parents and drives of desire and pleasure. These stages reflect base levels of desire, but they also involve fear of loss. We can read psychoanalytically to see which concepts are operating in the text in such a way as to enrich our understanding of the work and, if we plan to write a paper about it, to yield a meaningful, coherent psychoanalytic interpretation.

Questions to ask How do the operations of repression structure or inform the work? Are there any oedipal dynamics - or any other family dynamics - are work here? How can characters' behavior, narrative events, and/or images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts of any kind? (for example...fear or fascination with death, sexuality/love/romance or the operations of ego-id-superego)? What does the work suggest about the psychological being of its author? What might a given interpretation of a literary work suggest about the psychological motives of the reader? Are there prominent words in the piece that could have different or hidden meanings? <Could there be a subconscious reason for the author using these "problem words"?>

Homework: Must have independent novel when we return from break! Review Objectives Homework: Must have independent novel when we return from break! Today I will learn… How to view and annotate a text with a specific literary lens. How to utilize extended time to make up any missing or poor assignments. I will know I have learned this when… I am able to use the Psychoanalytical Lens to analyze a given text. I am able to use extended time wisely to improve my current grade.