Using Psychoanalytic Literary Theory to Analyze Ceremony

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU GET STARTED: 1. Which characters represent the different Symbolic Orders outlined above? 2. How might the poems/prayers that appear in/break up the narrative be read through psychoanalytic literary theory? That is, what might they signify when approached as a phenomenon (that is, taken all together, with a focus on their form rather than or in addition to their content)? 3. Which passages seem to lend themselves most easily to a psychoanalytic reading? That is, which seem to showcase the dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious mind, between manifest and latent meaning, between rational thought action and irrational, id-driven behavior? Which passages seem to represent the uncanny? Which passages represent character-expressed or text-expressed symptoms?                                                                                                                    

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