Editing Psychoanalytic literary criticism (section)

===Reader response===
According to Ousby, 'Among modern critical uses of psychoanalysis is the development of "[[ego psychology]]" in the work of [[Norman Holland]], who concentrates on the relations between reader and text'<ref>Ousby ed., p. 767</ref> – as with [[reader response criticism]].  Rollin writes that 'Holland's experiments in reader response theory suggest that we all read literature selectively, unconsciously projecting our own fantasies into it'.<ref>L. Rollin/M. I. West, ''Psychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature'' (2008) p. 12</ref>

Thus in [[crime fiction]], for example, '[[Charles Rycroft|Rycroft]] sees the criminal as personifying the reader's unavowed hostility to the parent'.<ref>Michael Shepherd, ''Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Dr Freud'' (London 1985) p. 26</ref>