The Misguided Approach to Literary Criticism

Psychoanalytic literary criticism is just that as well, where it is, I think almost certainly mostly wrong. But nonetheless, pretty fucking interesting. It's almost like their obsession with this, their theoretical approach just gets them to do close, close readings that just by virtue of them being close readings. And you're squeezing out meaning in a way that could most definitely be like the author themselves might be like, what are you talking about? But there is value to that. And I think it just depends on what your analysis is trying to do. Like, I think that Freudian readings of Shakespearean plays are like super interesting. They don't even buy the psychology that Freud was saying