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Psychoanalytic literary criticism
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Charles Mauron: PsychocriticismIn 1963, Charles Mauron conceives a structured method to analyse literary works. The study implies four different phases.
1) The creative process is akin to dreaming awake: as such, it is a mimetic, and cathartic, representation of an unconscious impulse or desire that is best expressed and revealed by metaphors and symbols.
2) Then, the juxtaposition of a writer's works leads the critic to define symbolical themes.
3) These metaphorical networks are significant of a latent inner reality.
4) They point at an obsession just as dreams can do. The last phase consists in linking the writer's literary creation to his own personal life.
The author cannot be reduced to a ratiocinating self: his own more or less traumatic biographical past, the cultural archetypes that have suffused his "soul" ironically contrast with the conscious self, The chiasmic relation between the two tales may be seen as a sane and safe acting out. A basically unconscious sexual impulse is symbolically fulfilled in a positive and socially gratifying way, a process known as Sublimation .
Des métaphores obsédantes au mythe personnel :
external link: http://www.jose-corti.fr/titreslesessais/des-metaphores-mauron.html
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