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Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (Literature and Psychoanalysis Series) Bernard Paris
Publisher: NYU Press

Girard's career has been mostly devoted to literary criticism, and the analysis of fictional characters. The second half of the 20th century was marked by an intensive migration of academic psychoanalysis from departments of psychology to departments of literature and philosophy. Indeed, in fields such as psychology and psychoanalysis, identification is an essential building process of identity that remains opposed to individualization and resembles the psychological projecting mechanism. In America and Psychoanalysis builds upon the basic postulate that symptoms manifest in a subject's behaviour (Freud, 1969b, 145), symptoms being the mother of psychoanalysis. Although he rarely calls himself a According to this theory human beings imitate each other, and this eventually gives rise to rivalries and violent conflicts. Analyzing a literary work based on psychology is a possibility. Literature, according to Moleong as quoted by Spadlex (2000:13), is the knowledge which is earned by human beings arise conduct and it is used to reflect and express experience. In particular, many cultural industries have developed a fascination with the 'creative class' as the representation of its lifestyles, values, agency and other features have become a prominent theme in contemporary Russian literature, While scholars, including Slavicist Mikhail Epstein, have recently devoted much attention to the “crisis in the humanities,” our conference will turn to the many ways in which “the human” has been perceived, re-imagined, interrogated, and critiqued. The command introduces a theme whose relevance to survival and adaptation will become more evident once a larger population of human beings has emerged. This approach later led to a proliferation of psycho-biographies by post-Freudians. Imagined Human Beings: Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (Literature & Psychoanalysis). Respondents identified the characters as protagonists, antagonists, or minor characters, judged the characters' motives according to human life history theory, rated the characters' traits according to the five-factor model of evolutionary psychology and envisioning radical changes in the conceptual foundations of literary study. Http://grove.ufl.edu/~bjparis/books/imagined/imagined.pdf Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature Preface By Bernard J. Paris What fascinates me most about literature is I have discussed Karen Horney's place in psychoanalytic thought in my 1994 biography of her, and I have defended various aspects of my psychological approach to literature in previous critical works (Paris 1974, 1978b, 1986a, 1991a, 1991b). The object of one's study A narrative perspective may be adopted, so as to determine the processes at stake in the building or perception of a character: how is the literary character's identity constructed and what are its relationships to other literary features? Genesis rewards literary analysis because of its complex structure and plot, its concentrated characterization, its vibrant language and its rich but submerged themes, accompanied by what Robert Alter calls “the high fun of the act of literary communication… the lively inventiveness …[which] . He has written from the perspective of a wide variety of disciplines: Literary Criticism, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. Psychology is a branch of science of which its object of study is human beings because psyche or psycho is defined as soul.