1. What do you understand by Psychoanalytic criticism? Psychoanalytical criticism is the study of relation of conscious and unconscious state of mind. According to Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis human behaviors are guided by unconscious layer of mind. Literature is also creative reflection of our unconscious. a. The origin of unconscious Human beings have many desires for power, love, sex and so on. But all the desires cannot be easily fulfilled. Suppose, we are attracted to a friend sexually in college. But you have to repress your desires there. When our desires are not fulfilled, they are repressed. The repressed desires make a storehouse in our mind. The storehouse of unfulfilled desires makes our unconscious. The unconscious affects our conscious activities. "You can't get always what you consciously want, but you get what you unconsciously need." The desires try to come out again, but you control it and tell a joke, or write erotic poem or go...