Homework 'Shrew'/backgound reading/viewing/see last post too!

 Hi all,

FYI your  vote on the weight of PIV came out in favour of test weight.

(Your homework is at the bottom of this post. Important info. is in last post too.)

I feel we have not covered Psychological theory as well as the other approaches so I am adding background reading/viewing for you here.

Here is a link to view a background lecture on this theory and Freud in particular video (I recommend you focus on :7:39-25:35 and again 44:17-you decide)

NOTES:

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalytic criticism builds on Freudian theories of psychology. While we don't have the room here to discuss all of Freud's work, a general overview is necessary to explain psychoanalytic literary criticism.

Freud asserted that people's   is affected by their unconscious: "...the notion that human beings are motivated, even driven, by desires, fears, needs, and conflicts of which they are unaware..."

Freud believed that our unconscious was influenced by childhood events. Freud organized these events into developmental stages involving relationships with parents and drives of desire and pleasure

"...repression doesn't eliminate our painful experiences and emotions...we unconsciously behave in ways that will allow us to 'play out'...our conflicted feelings about the painful experiences and emotions we repress" (15). To keep all of this conflict buried in our unconscious, Freud argued that we develop defenses: selective perception, selective memory, denial, displacement, projection, regression, fear of intimacy, and fear of death, among others.

Id, Ego, and Superego

(see video)

Freud/psychology and Literature analysis:

Typical questions:

·                How do the operations of repression structure or inform the work?

·                Are there any oedipal dynamics - or any other family dynamics - are work here?

·                How can characters' behavior, narrative events, and/or images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts of any kind (for example...fear or fascination with death, sexuality - which includes love and romance as well as sexual behavior - as a primary indicator of psychological identity or the operations of ego-id-superego)?

·                What does the work suggest about the psychological being of its author?

·                What might a given interpretation of a literary work suggest about the psychological motives of the reader?

·                Are there prominent words in the piece that could have different or hidden meanings? Could there be a subconscious reason for the author using these "problem words"? https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/72

• Today we began reading/discussing The Taming of the Shrew Shakepeare. 
• We reviewed play form and reading, citation, Shakespeare's theatre, Elizabethan customs.
• We began reading the text in light of Critical theory and the guiding questions on your unit overview. Thanks to all those who read aloud today; well done!
• Due Jan. 30th at the start of class is Worksheet 1A (completed on chart provided)
• Ensure to quote/cite your evidence.
• Ensure that your quotation is complete and makes sense standing alone.
• List 2 or 3 Character traits/synonyms/interpretations of each quote you choose. Be careful; I am not asking for sentences/clauses, but rather trait vocabulary.  For example, NOT: He thinks highly of himself INSTEAD: proud, braggadocious, haughty.
• Please watch this space for a detailed list of the dates and requirements each day for this unit. This will allow you to plan your busy lives, be here on major assessment days, and pace your reading of The Power of One which will follow this unit.

Enjoy your long weekend everyone. 

Ms. S