Thanatos

Entertainment / Literature / Thanatos: Freud's term for a subconscious desire for self-destruction--a secret longing to die--a death wish. See also wish fulfillment. (Greek, 'death')
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Jungian Psychology

Entertainment / Literature / Jungian Psychology: The term refers to the theories of the Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Jung was a student of Freud, but he rejected Freud's ideas of infantile sexuality (i.e., the Oedipal Complex, w MORE

Freudian Criticism

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-centu MORE