Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Literary Theory - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Like art, it brings inner truth; a deeper meaning
- - - - rules that govern and combine these units
      - language
    - - words that go hand-in-hand with each other
    - - signifier
        
        sound image; not a physical sound, but the psychological imprint/impression it makes
      - signified
        
        the concept: the object causing the psychological imprint
- - - - Dreams
        
        Displacement: the meaning behind the image(s)
        
        Condensation: image or flashes of images made to be simple
      - Parapraxes (slips of the tongue)
        
        Not really a mistake; reveals repressed desire
      - Jokes
        
        Puns and humor also reveal repressed desires
  - - - The very product of the unconscious
    - - The center of language is phallus (real); the distinction between the reality of the conscious and unconscious mind
    - - Language develops more after separation of the child from the mother
      - Without absence of something, language would not be necessary
    - - Fantasies of "self" form around who we really are v. who we want to be
      - "Otherness" is "self"
  - - - femininity v. masculinity
    - - Who is excluded from positions of power
      - How authority formulated gender roles
      - How, over time, gender roles have changed
    - - Example: The penis is equivalent to the pen, meaning only men can write. This shows society's perspective of masculinity
      - Ex: Some believe we will never have a woman president because women are "too weak" to handle political stress