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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Saenz's "Last Night I Sang to the Monster". A psychoanalytic criticism is performed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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analyses the work in terms of its insights into the cyclical struggle between power structures and material conditions. Some of the most powerful approaches to literary criticism stem from foundational
theories that have little to do with literature at all, however. One case in point is Freuds psychoanalytical theory; originally intended as a set of ideas to help understand the
genesis and expression of human personality and behavior, Freuds ideas have often been applied to literary texts in an attempt to better understand the characters within a work and their
motivations, as well as possibly derive insights into an authors state of mind or intention when creating a work. This paper will provide a psychoanalytical critique of Saenz "Last Night
I Sang to the Monster". This paragraph helps the student summarize Freuds psychoanalytic theories. In order to facilitate such a critique, however, one must first have a clear understanding
of the psychoanalytic theory put forth by Freud. One of the most significant and basic ideas held by Freud is that the mind is dividing into the conscious mind, the
contents and processes of which one is aware, and the unconscious mind, which is much larger and which often "hides" things from the conscious mind (Boeree 2006). For Freud, personality
and behavior results almost solely from interpsychic tensions that manifest as the result of certain traumatic experiences or inappropriate desires being pushed into the unconscious mind and denied expression in
the conscious mind (Boeree 2006). To use an extreme example, if an individual were kept locked in a cage with rats when one misbehaved as a child, but then repressed
that experience into the unconscious, one might still develop certain personality features and behaviors as an adult in order to compensate for this traumatic experience; for instance, one might seek
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