Contributions of psychoanalysis to literary criticism

Abstract

This work sought to demonstrate a little of psychoanalytic criticism, exemplifying, in analysis, the short story 'O Gato Preto'. Briefly clarifying the theory of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and how all his discovery and observations around the unconscious were important for literature. But it cannot be denied that his theory is in constant relationship with the literary context, so this work shows Freud's great contributions to literary analysis. As an example of these contributions, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe was taken, so the need arose to address what would be the story for this great American writer of horror fiction. Soon after, he followed the analysis of ‘The black cat’, thus, in practice, making it more evident that there is a relationship between literature and psychoanalysis.