Entertainment / Literature / Freudian Criticism: A psychoanalytical approach to literature that seeks to understand the elements of a story or character in a story by applying the tripartite model of the psyche developed by the late nineteenth-century psychologist, Sigmund Freud. In Freud's thinking, the mind was divided into three components: the ego (conscious mind and sense of self, from the Latin word for 'I'), the superego (a subconscious collection of inhibitions, guilty feelings, and anxieties superimposed on the mind by half-forgotten parental punishments, social rebukes, instilled ethics and the necessary conventions of civilized behavior), the id (a mindless, self-destructive tangle of instinctive unverbalized desires and physical appetites, from Latin 'it'). Closely linked to this tripartite division were concepts such as wish fulfillment, the Freudian slip, the Oedipal complex, and thanatos (the death wish).
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Criticism Noun Synonyms: censure, disapproval, condemnation, disparagement
Criticism Adjective Synonyms: judgment, evaluation, appraisal, analysis, assessment, estimation, valuation
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Technology / Television (TV) / Television Criticism: Non-empirical, analytical methods (e.g., auteurism, genre study, semiotics and feminism) employed to understand systems of meaning on television. The term is also used in the popular press to refer to MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Textual Criticism: The collection, comparison, and collating of all textual variants in order to reconstruct or recreate a single authoritative text--especially one that reflects authorial intention. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Typological Criticism: A type of literary analysis of medieval or patristic texts in which critics read characters, objects, or events according to established interpretations of similar characters, objects, or events in bi MORE