ENGL 3Q93 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Electra Complex, Category Mistake, Oedipus Complex

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3Q93
• Professor: Mathew Martin

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Engl 3q93 some character types - freud. Makes you wonder just how screwed up we are as human beings. Freuds major examples in this essay are not real people, they are literary characters. Freud makes a shift from talking about real life patience to characters from plays. He does so to illustrate basic psychoanalytic points. Freud will psychoanalyse one of his patients as well as lady macbeth. Freud is making a category mistake in his thinking because of course we all know that real people and literary characters are different. Freud is aware that they are different, and he meets this objection that. End of the essay we may raise in several ways: literary characters are the creations of artistic geniuses into human character. He may argue that its different to psychoanalyse a cartoon flat character, but characters like. Shakespearean characters are conventionally round and whole and can be psychoanalysed.