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What are the three or four most important concerns for the psychoanalytic criticism theory?
One concern off the bat is that no matter how valid the field of psychoanalytic investigation is, and how much respect that Freud's theory has garnered over the years, in terms of the psychoanalytic criticism theory's contribution to understanding humans and society, there are doubts as to its validity. When the psychoanalytic criticism theory it is used to look into the reasons that authors use certain conflicts, characters, themes and other literary tools, it can be seen as an inappropriate intrusion into literature. An author like Edgar Allen Poe, for example, has been deceased for many years, but 21st century critics can rip through his novels and short stories and conclude that his psychological makeup was twisted, that his mind was warped in the direction of hideousness. Obviously Poe had a dark imagination, and his work was intended to shock and startle the reader. But rather than a reader simply enjoying a journey into a Poe story, with psychoanalytic criticism, another path is now laid out for the reader beyond the pleasure of reading good literature.
Yes, psychoanalytic criticism has become widely accepted and as author Susan L. Feagin writes, it has become " ... established as one among a number of critical approaches" to literary...
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