By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean. and, in a series of essays, begins to move away from them, toward the readings Mr. Bloom does so prodigiously well. . In the preface to his book Literary Theory, well-known critic Terry Eagleton clearly expresses the purpose of his book. . The unconsciousness also are the principles that govern the process of repression . Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism Introduction A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture. Therefore, repression is, in Freudian theory, the “universal” psychiatric process and exists in a separate part of the human psyche. These different lenses allow critics to consider works of art based on certain assumptions within that school of theory. . This article argues that although many people state that literary theorists are attempting to take over the field of game studies, there has yet to be a real attempt to apply literary theory to a close reading of specific games. Furthermore, according to Eagleton in his discussion of psychoanalytic literary theory (131–168), repression frequently occurs when the respective interests of the so-called pleasure and reality principles collide. This is a book that serious students of literary theory will inevitably contend with, or against. "— Choice " Poetry and Repression begins with a chart-summary of many Bloomian ideas . Literary Theory “Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. Psychoanalysis > Theory [Definition of Repression] There is a kind of forgetting which is distinguished by the difficulty with which the memory is awakened even by a powerful external summons, as though some internal resistance were struggling against its revival. . by the repression of that which is too painful to remain in consciousness. A forgetting of this kind has been given the name of 'repression… Freud distinguishes repression from sublimation –the rechanneling of drives that cannot be given an acceptable outlet. Psychoanalytic Theory used in English Literature: A Descriptive Study Harold Bloom - A Theory of Poetry, 1973; Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens, 1976 Peter Brooks Jacque Lacan - The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis , 1988; "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud" (from Écrits: A Selection , … In this article I reexamine the development of New Censorship Theory, especially its antecedents in the Marxist critique of bourgeois civil society. Shelves: literary-theory For Bloom, poets writing after John Milton are in an Oedipal situation with regard to that poet. He hopes that this rather short volume of about two-hundred pages will: I saw… . He argues that Miltons poems are so strong that they make it difficult for later poets to write original workBloom terms this the anxiety of influence. 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