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Othello Through Critical Lens: Psychoanalytical/Freudian

Keywords for Psychoanalytic/Freudian Theory

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Wildcard:  The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour.

Truncation:  The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational

Put a phrase in “quotes”. For example, “Oedipal Complex”.

Use Boolean Operators to narrow or expand a search, and exclude irrelevant results.
For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical

Examples of keywords/concepts:

Jealousy, Obsession, Manipulation, Deception, Betrayal, Revenge, Guilt, Madness, Power, Identity, Id, ego, superego, Oedipal Complex, Symbolic Dreams, 

The Unconscious: 

The unconscious is the storehouse of those painful experiences and emotions, those wounds, fears, guilty desires, and unresolved conflicts we do not want to know about because we feel we will be overwhelmed by them. The unconscious comes into being when we are very young through the repression, the expunging from consciousness, of these unhappy psychological events.

-Lois Tyson, Critical Theory Today

Psychoanalysts and Theorists: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida   Writers and Philosophers: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault

Databases

Example of an article:

Hyman, Stanley Edgar. “IAGO PSYCHOANALYTICALLY MOTIVATED.” The Centennial Review, vol. 14, no. 4, 1970, pp. 369–84. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23737771.

Example of an article:

Wangh, Martin. "Othello: The Tragedy of Iago." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Mark W. Scott, vol. 4, Gale, 1987. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/BYARXK417305203/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=fe470783. Originally published in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Apr. 1950, pp. 202-212.

Example of an article:

Phillips, Adam. "Othello on Satisfaction." Raritan, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 50-69,179. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/othello-on-satisfaction/docview/896131665/se-2.

Example of an article:

Olson, Rebecca. "“Too Gentle”: Jealousy and Class in Othello." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15 no. 1, 2015, p. 3-25. Project MUSEhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jem.2015.0006.