What is Freud's concept of the uncanny?

The uncanny (das Unheimliche) describes the eerie feeling produced when something familiar returns in an estranged or repressed form — the frightening that comes back through what is known.

What is the Oedipus complex in literary criticism?

The Oedipus complex — the child's desire for the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent — is used to analyse character motivations, family dynamics, and thematic structures in literary texts.

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Psychoanalytic Criticism — UGC NET MCQs

25 past-paper pattern questions across all 5 UGC NET question types. Covers Freud (id/ego/superego, uncanny, dream-work, defence mechanisms), Lacan (Symbolic, desire, objet petit a), Jung (archetypes), Bloom (anxiety of influence).

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Psychoanalytic Criticism — UGC NET MCQs

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Freud's topographical model of the mind divides it into:

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