【正文】 1 Freudian Psychoanalysis Reading: Psychoanalytical Criticism Presenter: Vivienne Wang Date amp。 Time: Sept. 21 08:3008:40AM Life and character Infantile Sexual Development The Oedipus plex Dreams:repression of desires the unconscious split subject Stucture of the mental apparatus The Oedipus plex Criticism in art amp。 literature Freudian Psychoanalytical Criticism Life and character ? Sigmund Freud was born on 6 may 1856 in the Moravian town of Freiberg, now Pribor in the Czech Republic. Freud’ s mother, a vivacious and charming lady who survived until the age of 95,was only 21 when Freud was born. She went on to bear 7 other children。 but Sigmund, referred to by her as “mein goldener Sigi”, remained her indisputable favourite, one circumstance to which Freud attributed his inner confidence. In 1938, he was pelled to take refuge from Nazis, and spent the last year of his life in England, dying on 23 September 1939, shortly after the beginning of the Second World War. ? From October 1885 to February 1886 he worked at the Salpetri232。re Hospital in Paris under the great neurologist Charcot, whose teaching on hysteria awoke his interest in the problems of the neuroses, as opposed to anic diseases of the nervous system. From the mid1890s onward, Freud’s life bees the history of development of psychoanalysis. Freud himself recognized that his personality was obsessional as being “ especially orderly, parsimonious and obstinat