Psychoanalytic Criticism Vocabulary from Chapter 2 of Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson (2023)

Psychoanalytic Criticism Vocabulary from Chapter 2 of Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson (2023) Psychoanalytic Criticism - ANS-Focusing on the ways that the ego, superego, and id of characters' personalities in a work influence the work as a whole. unconscious - ANS-according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. repression - ANS-the expunging from consciousness sublimation - ANS-a defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or urges are transformed into socially acceptable behaviors (freud and sex) transference - ANS-an unconscious redirection of feelings, desires, and expectations from one person onto another (freud) selective perception - ANS-hearing and seeing only what we feel we can handle denial - ANS-believing that the problem doesn't exist or the unpleasant incident never happened avoidance - ANS-staying away from people or situations that are liable to make us anxious by stirring up some unconscious (i.e. repressed) experience or emotion regression - ANS-the temporary return to a former psychological state, which is not just imagined but relived return of the repressed - ANS-the Freudian concept that whatever is repressed will be expressed sooner or later in an unrecognizable and unconscious way repetition compulsion - ANS-A psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats a traumatic event or its circumstances over and over again. This includes reenacting the event or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to happen again. superego - ANS-the social values and taboos that we internalize (consciously or unconsciously) - feeling guilty only because we are socially programmed to feel so defense - ANS-unconscious desire not to recognize or change our destructive behavior ego - ANS-conscious self that experiences the external world through the senses id - ANS-psychological reservoir of our instincts, gratification of prohibited desires of all kinds without an eye to consequences latent content - ANS-the hidden message...