The psychological approach

The general use of a psychological study is to examine the act of reaction, goes back as far as Plato. Romantic critics like Coleridge were also interpreted in exploring how human being comes to write poetry. In more recent times, psychological studies attempt to relate the author’s start of mind to special qualities in the work.

In more recent times, various schools of modern Psychology have examined the mental conditions out of which art arises. The Freudian school relates art and neurosis, while Jungian school discusses the concept of archetypes.

The Psychoanalytic approach has been normalized as a way of understanding the mind. The term psychoanalysis given by Freud in 1896. He gave this term as a means of therapy for neurosis, but soon expanded it to account for many developments in the history of development and civilization, including war force mythology and religion as well as literature and the other arts.

Literature like dreams neurotic symptoms consist of the imagined or fantasy, fulfillment of wishes that either of wishes that either or prohibited by the society, comes in to the unconscious realm of critics mind. The chief mechanism that effect these are

1.   Condensation

2.   Displacement and

3.   Symbolism

These phenomenon particularly effect on modernist writing. Freud’s identification of pleasure as a central motivation in human behavior has been developed in psychoanalytical and linguistic theory together with the concept of desire. The desire of psychological or sexual gratification and the psychologist Carl Jung played a very important role in pointing out how certain images and symbols in a language derived their full meaning from a deep

“Collective unconscious”

 that lies behind the conscious unconscious of individual’s mind. Northrop Fryer develops the ideas of Archetypal literature based on the psychological approach.

We are always curious to know from where the creative writers draw their material and how can they arouse emotion in us. But the creative writers themselves have no explanation of this.

If we want to find out a trace of imaginative activity in us then we will have to go the childhood, the child’s mentality toeards others as it is important into the psychological approach. So we can say that  psmeychological approach important  for students of iterature to remark the mentality of the  readers as well as the people.