Identify the statements which are true for psychoanalytic criticism:
- A. Freud established its premises and procedures.
- B. Freud said artists are like neurotic patients.
- C. Psychoanalysis can explain developments in the history of civilisation.
- D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
- E. Literature manifests the artist's repressed drives.
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Correct answer: D. A, C and E only
Explanation
Freud laid the foundations (A), applied psychoanalysis to culture in Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents (C), and read art as the disguised fulfilment of repressed wishes (E). Repressed wishes are exactly what turn into fantasy, so D is false; the key also treats B as false.
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