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Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Creating Insight and Intertexts through Critical Distancing

&nbsp;&nbsp;As disciplines devoted to critically analyzing the given narratives and deriving creative insights from such activities, literature and psychoanalysis both pay attention to the particular ways in which the subject, through the medium of personalized narrative, interprets his or her experiences to make sense of them. The textual, unconscious aspect of narratives, which resists any attempt to pin them down to determined sets of predictable or desired meanings, hints at the possibility of reaching beyond the prescribed symbolic signifying system or the dominant paradigm of thought, and forging an alternative perspective and subject position.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The recent shift of focus in psychoanalytic researches, from drive regulation, knowledge, and adaptation, to the capability to generate meanings and experiences that feel authentic and real, has far-reaching implications for literary studies. For instance, D. W. Winnicott&quot;s concept of "play," comparable to Jacques Derrida&quot;s "diff？rance," as well as Jacques Lacan&quot;s seminal concept of "traversing the fantasy," emphasizes the importance of exploring and transgressing the limit of any socially constructed reality, and actively (re)constructing meanings on the subject&quot;s own terms in a new context. Thus, approaching literary texts and interpretation as a means of dialecticizing the signifying process can function as a vial means through which the subject generates a subjectified, meaningful narrative by establishing a critical distance from, and making a difference within, the already existing networks of signification. Moreover, by prying open and tapping into the gap or fissure of the socially imposed and sanctioned discourse, studies of literature offer a chance of reexamining the basic configurative relationship between the self and others in order to build an intertext founded upon more dialectic interpersonal narratives.