Psychological Criticism(2): the application of psychoanalysis within literature. There are three basic questions psychologists try to answer with this method.
One: How are the author’s psychological conflicts revealed in his or her work?
Two: What is an in-depth analysis of the characters if they were real people?
Three: What is the appeal of the work to the readers
in relation to their own ability to work out hidden desires and fears?
Pride and Prejudice:
A Psychological Criticism Applied by Katy Holt and Malene
A. Little
Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice
1. http://www.utdallas.edu/kmarshal/lit/criticism.htm accessed
5/1/02
2. A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms; Edward Quinn;
Facts on File, Inc. New York: 1999, page 263.