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The History of Literature
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Nebokov's Psychoanalysis
Freud said literary work must then be treated like a dream, applying psychoanalytic techniques to the text. And writers pushed back at the idea that their characters should be analyzed. Nebokov wrote a story called signs and symbols as a direct attack on critics who try to read literature in one way or another.
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