1. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature (1) Structure of the Mind, Child Development & Oedipus Complex (2) Dream and Sexual Symbols (3) Psychological Diseases

2. The dream-work... Dreams-- the royal road to the unconscious. Transforms the 'latent' content of the dream, the. 'forbidden' dream-thoughts, into the 'manifest' dream stories -- what the dreamer remembers.

3. Freud ’ s Interpretation of Dream 1 st : wish fulfillments---the disguise is successful and the dream proceeds undisturbed, 2 nd : anxiety dreams --the disguise is absent or insufficient; the forbidden wish emerges, causes anxiety, and the dreamer wakes up 3 rd : content is disturbing but the feeling is not -- the wish is particularly well disguised by a misalliance of content and feeling

4. Four Elements of Dream condensation, displacement, consideration of representibility, and symbolization/secondary revision. Examples: switches a person's hatred of Mr. Appleby to that of a rotting apple. “ Dream ” Dream Spellbound

5. Sexual symbols: (Frued's notion of symbolism: the whole world can be absorbed narcissistically, the sexual drives can attach themselves to anything the senses perceive.) Examples: Rene MargritteRene Margritte