Psychoanalysis

The keyword Psychoanalysis is tagged in the following 3 articles.

Analyzing Reader-Response in J.D. Salinger's "The Laughing Man"

February 25, 2010 - 3310 words | Literary Criticism » J.d. Salinger

J.D. Salinger’s “The Laughing Man” is a classic frame story which displays the parallels between a storyteller and his real life. The narrator of the story, along with his friends, acts as the “readers” of this story and respond... Read Article »

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J.D. Salinger The Laughing Man Reader-response Reader-response Theory Psychoanalysis Mary Hudson

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue: Psychoanalyzing Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

February 24, 2010 - 1809 words | Literary Criticism » Joyce Carol Oates

It is perhaps an understatement to say that the character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” has a lot of issues. Oates has provided the perfect character to undergo a healthy dose of psychoanalytic... Read Article »

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Psychoanalytic Criticism Joyce Carol Oates Baby Blue Psychoanalysis

An Analysis of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"

December 14, 2009 - 1636 words | Film and Cinema » Billy Wilder

In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock&rsquo... Read Article »

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Laura Mulvey Molly Haskell Double Indemnity Billy Wilder Film Noir Psychoanalysis Castration Anxiety Femme Fatale Freud Film History Film Criticism Film Journalism