1. Psychoanalytic Theory

2. Rational
Rational thought (balance between hedonism of Id and moralism of super-ego)
Strict morality (no special circumstances)
Only purpose: desire and pleasure

3. Assumptions theory of human personality.
Theories concerned with unconscious mind.
PA theory is universalist in scope
Focus on psyche of author or characters
elements including Id, Ego and Superego.

4. What To Do
unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilt or ambivalence in characters.
author's background
Character behavior
Use Freudian terms in analysis
dreams
-symbolism
-condensation
-displacement
Look for evidence of unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilt or ambivalence in
characters.
Recognize the author's childhood traumas, family life, sexual conflicts and fixations in the
behavior of the characters in the text.
Identify psychological material expressed indirectly, disguised, or encoded (as in dreams)
through principles such as:
-symbolism (the repressed object represented in disguise)
-condensation (several thoughts or persons represented in a single image)
-displacement (defense mechanism in which there is a shift of emotions from the
original object to a more acceptable substitute)

5. Big Question
How is Freud’s structural model of personality illustrated in this text and to what effect?