title: An essay on method in applied psychoanalysis.
abstract: The author attempts to evaluate critically the application of psychoanalysis to literature by examining problems of method and the assumptions psychoanalysts unwittingly make about texts they are about to interpret. The special advantages of psychoanalysis over other interpretive systems are discussed, and several examples of the possible use of psychoanalysis in the study of literary texts are presented.
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003405:Creativity; D004325:Dreams; D005201:Fantasy; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D009042:Motivation; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014956:Writing