Roberts, Appendix A: A pyschoanalytical approach to literature
Roberts, Appendix C -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Some critics use the approach to explain fictional characters ... Critics using the psychoanalytic approach treat literature somewhat like information about patients in therapy. In the work itself, what are the obvious and hidden motives that cause a character's behavior and speech?
That question is the very question that seems to be at the heart of my second literary research paper for this semester, which examines the psychological condition of the grandmother in O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
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I don't have an extensive background in psychology, but I've studied bits and pieces of it.
My paper will explain how the grandmother is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and then go on to explain why her plan to save herself by forming an emotional connection to the Misfit fails.
Posted by: ChrisU | March 27, 2006 11:33 PM
Chris...
Your paper 2 sounds like it will be very interesting once it is completed. I was wondering if you have any background in psychology? I will be graduating this year with my BA in psych, so I would def. be interested in seeing what you found to be the psychological condition of the grandmother in O'connors, "A Good Mans Hard to Find."
Posted by: Terra Stumpf | March 27, 2006 7:33 PM