Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies

Bijano Murry ¹, N. D. R. Chandra ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of English, Nagaland University, Kohima, IN

Abstract

Ever since Sigmund Freud discovered that the creative faculty draws on drives and fantasies that are buried in the unconscious and that they provide the clues to understanding the imaginative mind as well as individual works, it created room for a number of speculations. Literary criticism has been flooded with different variants of psychological criticism which include studying the work presented in terms of its characters, the author’s mind and the reader’s mind.

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