The psychic truth of fiction: psychoanalytic interpretation of drama and children's literature

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Ivey, Gavin ORCID: 0000-0002-5537-3504 (2006) The psychic truth of fiction: psychoanalytic interpretation of drama and children's literature. Psychology in Society, 33. pp. 37-52. ISSN 1015-6046

Abstract

Despite the seductive flicker of satellite television and the instantly accessible visual entertainment of computer games and DVD movies, people continue to read fiction and go the theatre. The fulfilment derived from immersion in the fictional worlds of books and the physicality of dramatic action endures, despite the technological onslaught of instant electronic gratification

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/3007
Official URL http://www.pins.org.za/
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1701 Psychology
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Social Sciences and Psychology
Historical > FOR Classification > 2005 Literary Studies
Keywords ResPubID19125, ResPubID22455. psychological frames of reference, psychoanalytic theory in interpretation of fiction
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