Psychoanalytic Criticism Application

Windt Psychoanalytic Sandbox

I used Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning to apply psychoanalytic criticism because there was a clear unconscious desire of the lover. I included the culture of the time to discuss the possible reason that produced the text as well as the lover’s unconscious feelings. I found this essay to be more difficult because it was not entirely clear what the lover’s motives were and I had to work harder to make the text support my thesis.