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Freud's indelible figures of writing are his chief contribution to a knowledge of the unconscious

the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry

Again, there is a gap opened up between the claim to truth and the way in which the text deconstructs that claim as a merely rhetorical or post hoc rationalization

During the sixties and early seventies his thinking was much influenced by a group of critics--the so-called 'Geneva School'--who saw interpretation as an effort to grasp the states of awareness embodied in literary texts