Psychoanalytic Criticism - (Previous Year Questions NET)

Psychoanalytic Criticism – (Previous Year Questions UGC NET English)

1. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?

(A)Archetype
(B)The Uncanny
(C)The Absurd
(D)The Imaginary

2. The following is a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order of their formulation?

(A)Langue – the unconscious – difference – heresy of paraphrase
(B)The unconscious – langue – heresy of paraphrase – difference
(C)Difference – langue – heresy of paraphrase – the unconscious
(D)Langue – difference – the unconscious – heresy of paraphrase

3. Read the following passage:

“To refer to symbols as Lacanian symbols, to dub self-doubt as Lacanian self-doubt, and to call reflections in a mirror Lacanian reflections is not to read the mind from a perspective informed by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to Barthes’ hermeneutic code and Foucault’s analysis of sexual discourse constitute an interpretation necessarily different from that of traditional humanist criticism.”

The author of the passage is objecting to critics who:

(A)try to force a parallel between recent critical approaches and traditional humanist criticism
(B)decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories without employing the methodology
(C)attempt to reduce the study of literature to a hunt for coded messages and symbols
(D)stubbornly maintain a traditional notion of the role of criticism while refusing to acknowledge new theoretical developments

4. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language?