Bibliography

Works Cited

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Collier Books, 1986. Print.

External Sources (Annotated Bibliography)

• Gholipour, Mojtaba, and Mina Sanahmadi. "A Psychoanalytic Attitude to The Great Gatsby." . N.p., 1 Jan. 2013. Pdf. 9 July 2014. <http://www.isaet.org/images/extraimages/IJHMS%200101213.pdf>.

This source offers a psychoanalytic criticism towards The Great Gatsby. Along with serving as an example literary criticism, the application of the novel helps students further understand how to apply the psychoanalytic lens. This source also offers some definitions to critical psychoanalytic terms.

• Mitchell, Giles. "The Great Narcissist: A Study of Fitzgerald‘s Gatsby." Gatsby Is a Pathological Narcissist by Giles Mitchell. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 July 2014. <http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/mitchell-narcissist.html>.

This is an interesting read and can help students develop their own sense of the psychoanalytic lens. This source analyses the novel on the premise that Gatsby was a narcissist. It helps student grasp the concept of narcissism through the helpful application of relating it to The Great Gatsby.

• "Some Questions Psychoanalytic Critics Ask about Literary Texts." . N.p., n.d. Pdf. 9 July 2014. <http://www.mychandlerschools.org/cms/lib6/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/963/Psychoanalytic%20Crit%20-%20Gatsby.pdf>.

This external source was rich with information regarding the psychoanalytic lens and how it can be applied to the novel, The Great Gatsby. It offers a psychoanalytic reading, which could highlight points students missed while reading the novel. As well, since it is opinionated, the source can be agreed or disagreed with by the student to further help develop the psychoanalytic lens. Finally, an important resource offered by this source were the questions that should be asked when reading a novel from a psychoanalytic lens.

• Shall, Denise. "The Neurobiology of Freud’s Repetition Compulsion." . N.p., 1 Nov. 2003. Pdf. 10 July 2014. <http://traderpsyches.com/documents/Neurobiology_Freud_Repetition.pdf>.

This paper was helpful in understanding the important concept of repetition compulsion. It answers the main question of why people are inclined to repeat things of the past. This information can be usefully transferred to a literary criticism through the psychoanalytic lens.

• Dename, Kristi. "Repetition Compulsion: Why Do We Repeat the Past?." Psych Central.com. Psych Central, 28 June 2013. Web. 10 July 2014. <http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/06/29/repetition-compulsion-why-do-we-repeat-the-past/>.

This external source was very useful and helpful when analysing literature through the psychoanalytic lens. It aids in understanding the repetition compulsion, one of Freud’s concepts, and even offers an example to further clarify the meaning. Through the understanding of this concept, the idea can be applied to the novel’s main concepts and through examining this concept, a psychoanalytic criticism can be developed.