Write a critical note on the essentials of Marxist literary theory or Freudian psychoanalysis.

This is just by way of addition---

Marxist Theory---

1. Literature or art as a part of the superstructure, interpellatively determined by the economic base. Literature is thus a site of ideology c.f. terry Eagleton.Marxism and the influence on literary form.c.f. Fredric Jameson.

2. Literature and the alienation from realism--Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre going against theatrical illusionism. Alienation-effect as a way of de-familiarization.

3. Literature as a commodity--the stress on publishing

4. Raymond Williams and the anti-Bourgeois figurations of art.

Psychoanalysis:

1. Literature and its unconscious origin--automatic writing, Surrealism, Dadaism...

2. Literature and desire in language c.f. the works of Kristeva.

3. Literature as symptom c.f. Slavoj Zizek.

4. Literature and schizophrenia in all its capitalist contours c.f. Deleuze and Guattari.

5. Literature and lack as a textual and epistemic gap--how language creates holes in knowledge as it writes c.f. Jacques Lacan.