/tags/sigmund-freud/ Recent content in Sigmund Freud on Keren Wang Hugo en-us Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:40:01 +0000 /teaching/2025/04/research-methods-lesson-notes-psychoanalytic-criticism/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:40:01 +0000 /teaching/2025/04/research-methods-lesson-notes-psychoanalytic-criticism/ <h1></h1><strong>Originally posted by:</strong> Keren Wang, Fall 2024 <div class="toc"> <h2>Table of Contents</h2> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li><a href="#overview">Ideological Criticism - Overview</a></li> <li><a href="#key-perspectives">Key Perspectives from Ideological Criticism</a></li> <li><a href="#base-superstructure">Economic Inequality and False Consciousness</a></li> <li><a href="#hegemony-mythologies">Hegemony and Mythologies</a></li> <li><a href="#psychoanalytic criticism overview">Psychoanalytic Criticism - Overview</a></li> <li><a href="#unconscious">The Unconscious</a></li> <li><a href="#Id, Ego, and Superego">Id, Ego, and Superego</a></li> <li><a href="#Defense Mechanisms and Complexes">Defense Mechanisms and Complexes</a></li> <li><a href="#References">References</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <hr/> <h2 id="overview">Ideological Criticism - Overview</h2> <p>Ideological criticism is a method of analyzing texts and other rhetorical artifacts to uncover the underlying ideologies that shape and are reflected in them. This type of criticism is often used to explore how media, literature, and other forms of communication reinforce or challenge dominant social, political, and economic power structures.</p>