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The History of Literature
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Why Have You Never Told Me About This?
Freud's method and the interpretive framework that he provided proved irresistible to critics and to writers too. Here was not just a method for interpretation, but conclusions and motivations. A character wants to sleep with his mother and kill his father. Welle s a plot for you. You need to know what a villain did? Why the villain behaved the way that he did? Well, for he's probably got something tha t you can borrow from. And freudian slips, yes, please. Dreams to symbolize deep rooted desires.
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