Editing Psychoanalytic literary criticism (section)

===Charles Mauron: psychocriticism===
In 1963, [[Charles Mauron]]<ref>Des métaphores obsédantes au mythe ersonnel</ref> conceived a structured method to interpret literary works via psychoanalysis. The study implied four different phases:
# The creative process is akin to dreaming awake: as such, it is a [[mimesis|mimetic]], and [[cathartic]], representation of an innate desire that is best expressed and revealed by '''metaphors''' and symbolically.
# Then, the juxtaposition of a writer's works leads the critic to define symbolical themes.
# These metaphorical networks are significant of a latent inner reality.
# They point at an obsession just as dreams can do. The last phase consists in linking the writer's literary creation to his own personal life.

On Mauron's concept, the author cannot be reduced to a ratiocinating self: his own more or less [[Psychological trauma|traumatic]] biographical past, the cultural archetypes that have suffused his [[soul]] contrast with the conscious self, The chiasmic relation between the two tales may be seen as a sane and safe [[acting out]]. A basically unconscious sexual impulse is symbolically fulfilled in a positive and socially gratifying way, a process known as [[Sublimation (psychology)|Sublimation]].