Freud's "normal" process of infant development (and associated revisions): oral stage, Oedipus complex, identification with father and law.

Look for representation of successful socialization or neurosis, places that "abnormal"adjustment appears as hidden, transferred, or displaced desires; as problematic identifications; as violent or otherwise "deviant" impulses.

Literature reveals psyches in distress; social processes or institutions out of alignment with human psychological needs; "happy endings" as successful resolutions of neuroses, or repressive disregard of them; tragic outcomes indicate the stakes involved in unaddressed inner conflicts.

Show literature to be part of the symbolic order, a structure of language and other signs that, when orderly, demonstrates the Law of the Father; reveal the process through which we fashion selves in absence of a unified consciousness and identify places we conform to and occasionally evade limiting forces.

Skura

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Show how characters work to resolve social and psychic pressures; how institutions make visible and focus unconscious conflict; how conflicts within institutions might admit solutions worked out by subjects (characters, for example) internally.