Abstract
The purpose of this review article is to identify theories of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud that play major roles in interpreting literary works. Psychoanalysis is among one of the modern theories used in literary analysis. Whether psychoanalysis has close connection with literature or not has been most controversial issues for many readers and least appreciated. In spite of being one of famous approach for interpreting literary text, it has become one of the mechanisms for interpreting hidden meaning of the text. The finding of this paper revealed Psychoanalysis is not simply branch of medicine, it has helped and is used to understand various fields as philosophy, culture, religion and first and for most used in literature. It also revealed that there is similarities and controversial issues between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalytical criticism. Id, which is part of human personality playing a major role in forming literary work for its repressed behaviors, laid in unconscious mind. The human actions which are suppressed feelings because of superego and can be expressed with the help of Ego which balance the conflict between id and superego in the right time in form of dreams, art, literary work and slip of tongue. Psychoanalysis approach is used to analyze piece of art by investigating closely the author and his/her life and literary work for providing evidence in analyzing, one or more of the character’s behavior and inspiration, the audience’ appealing and motivation to which react more closely or less unconsciously and the text for examining the role of language and symbolism in the work. 
Highlights
Literature is considered to be fiction, yet nothing is completely fiction even fiction has source of truth that aim to be interpreted in different ways either stated directly or indirectly through the actions of characters, symbols
The human personality according to Freud is made of id, ego and superego which has made significance role in literary work and is affected through characters, reader, author and text which basses on Freud’s psycho analytical criticism
The id is originated in our unconscious mind and produce the desire the anger, thirst, sexual desire and the superego is part of conscious mind as the opposite of id that give value to the moral part of the society
Summary
Literature is considered to be fiction, yet nothing is completely fiction even fiction has source of truth that aim to be interpreted in different ways either stated directly or indirectly through the actions of characters, symbols (associative meanings of the words). A literary work must have all or at least one of them to be considered literature. That is beauty of the text rely on the associative words or how a writer artistically crafted text to interpreted particular theme. It can be through use of familiar issues to the readers or through using remote topics. Whatever form of literature, it should be oral or written with hidden meanings or obvious meaning a work of art have particular audience or generally written or crafted with other ways through plays or movies its needed to be understood by their audiences. In order to interpret work of art various literary criticism schools: historical criticism, have suggested different methods. Postcolonial CriticismFrantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi www.cribfb.com/journal/index.php/aijssr
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