Editing Psychoanalytic literary criticism (section)

==Cultural examples==
In ''[[Small World: An Academic Romance]]'', one of [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]]'s satires of academia, the naive hero Persse follows Angelica to a forum where she discourses on Romance: '"[[Roland Barthes]] has taught us the close connection between narrative and sexuality, between the pleasures of the body and the 'pleasure of the text'....Romance is a multiple orgasm." Persse listened to this stream of filth flowing from between Angelica's exquisite lips and pearly teeth with growing astonishment and burning cheeks, but no one else in the audience seemed to find anything remarkable or disturbing about her presentation'.<ref>David Lodge, ''Small World'' (Penguin 1985) p. 322-3</ref>

In [[A.S. Byatt]]'s novel ''[[Possession (Byatt novel)|Possession]]'', the heroine/feminist scholar, while recognising that '"we live in the truth of what Freud discovered"', concedes that '"the whole of our scholarship – the whole of our thought – we question everything except the centrality of sexuality"'.<ref>A. S Byatt, ''Possession: A Romance'' (London 1990) p. 254 and p. 222</ref>