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===Form=== Waugh writes, 'The development of psychoanalytic approaches to literature proceeds from the shift of emphasis from "content" to the fabric of artistic and literary works'.<ref>Waugh, p. 203</ref> Thus for example [[Hayden White]] has explored how 'Freud's descriptions tally with nineteenth-century theories of [[Trope (literature)|tropes]], which his work somehow reinvents'.<ref>Waugh, p. 208</ref> Especially influential here has been the work of [[Jacques Lacan]], an avid reader of literature who used literary examples as illustrations of important concepts in his work (for instance, Lacan argued with [[Jacques Derrida]] over the interpretation of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "[[The Purloined Letter]]"). 'Lacan's theories have encouraged a criticism which focuses not on the author but on the linguistic processes of the text'.<ref>Ian Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (Cambridge 1995) p. 767</ref> Within this Lacanian emphasis, 'Freud's theories become a place from which to raise questions of interpretation, rhetoric, style, and figuration'.<ref>Waugh, p. 208</ref> However, Lacanian scholars have noted that Lacan himself was not interested in literary criticism ''per se'', but in how literature might illustrate a psychoanalytic method or concept.<ref>Evans, Dylan (2005). "From Lacan to Darwin" in ''The Literary Animal; Evolution and the Nature of Narrative'', eds. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005, pp.38β55.</ref>
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