2017): 40-46.
Alluding to Hossain
Alluding to Hossain(40), psychoanalytic criticism is critical in interpreting short stories, plays, speeches, and any other literary work. The author argues that literary descriptions, including dreams, metaphor, imagery, and symbolism, unleashed the implicit, unconscious desires and anxieties present in a text and are key manifestations of the narrator’s neuroses. Similarly, this crucial endeavor establishes proof of unaddressed psychological acrimonies, emotions, guilt, and ambivalence within what may be termed as disintegrated literary work. Additionally, the author notes that childhood maltreatment, family life, fixations, and sexuality are generally traceable within the characters’ behaviors in the text. In most cases, the psychological aspect is indirectly expressed, and hence it is encoded through different principles such as condensation, symbolism, and displacement.
The author uses descriptive analysis to assess the effectiveness of the theory in demystifying English literature. However,
while it is typically true that Freud’s use is an interesting approach to view the connection between humanity and literature, this theory is somewhat limited. This is because it is based on shared human expressions such as sexual morality, desire, and repressions. It is a constraint, especially when they fail to make up an entire portrait of the character. Factors such as social context, cultural consideration, and underlying mental conditions such as depression may cause a character to behave differently, which in turn renders psychoanalytic criticism useless. Or example, the challenges that troy encounters in life and the shape of his character may be motivated by childhood traumas and mental disorders, which can emanate from his drinking behaviors. The author cautions that it is important to use psychoanalytic criticisms alongside other criticism theories to provide additional context, factors, and motives that can help create a world that supports the psychoanalytical point of view.
The article is instrumental in analyzing the fences, especially in comprehending the main ideas, characters, and literary devices incorporated in the text. Such creative analysis provides the reader with the nature of reality and the individuals who exist in it.