D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel - a Postmodern View: Creative and Critical Power of Imaginary Narrative I. Introduction In this essay, I treat D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel as a kind of 'imaginary false document'. In a rigid scientific view, literary works or any artistic...

Psychoanalytical criticism is a form of literary analysis which allows the analyst to apply certain techniques and procedures from the discipline of psychoanalysis in the examination and interpretation of literary texts. Its major ideas, developed profoundly by Sigmund Freud during the early part of...

Sigmund Freud¡¯s Beyond the Pleasure Principle introduces trauma as something that defines the individual rather than the common perception that the person who falls victim to the event shapes the trauma. Trauma is not something that can be easily defined. Thus, artists and writers in the twentiet...

This essay will critique the efficacy of Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural counselling approaches, in particular as they apply to a specific case scenario. Both approaches will be defined and explained, and a brief expose of their relative antecedents will clarify the respective locations of e...

Ever since the French poet and author Charles Baudelaire translated and popularised the works of Edgar Allan Poe in the late 19th century, they have become predominant in many discourses by the European theoreticians. One of the central texts around which many debates have arisen is Poe's tale...