Please mail me any suggestions as to how I can improve the page. In a sense psychoanalytic therapy is the re-narratization of a person's life. As psychoanalysis deals with language and with interpretation, it introduces a significant approach to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the idea that there are motives and meanings which are disguised by and work through other meanings. This unde rstanding, particularly in terms of Lacan's sense that the subject is ex-centric to itself, is very important in contemporary understandings of reading, meaning, and the relation of literature to culture. Psychoanalysis examines the articulation of our most private anxieties and meanings to culture and gives us a perspective on them as cultural formations.
Psychoanalysis looks to culture as informative of our deepest psychic levels.
Psychoanalysis tends to read this split as a de racination of the self from its vital and formative being. Psychoanalysis constitutes one approach to the questions of good and evil, and especially of suffering and error, which plague us as humans. While on the level of practice psychoanalytic approaches to literature may not always be rich or rewarding enough, may tend to be reductive, on the level of theory psychoanalysis is of great importance.