Literary criticism is a broad term used to define the different theories in which a reader can critique literary works. ... Psychoanalytic theory originated from the Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, who pioneered the technique of psychoanalysis (Rivkin & Ryan, p.389). ... Like psychoanalysis, the criticism seeks to find evidence of unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilt, ambivalences, etc. within a literary work. ... What might a given interpretation of a literary work suggest about the psychological motives of the reader (Brizee, 2013)? ... Under the umbrella of psychoana...

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