) The literary technique applied in telling the story is Bildungsroman, which is a type of novel concerned with the moral and psychological growth of the protagonist.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

The same occurred in prose: gone were the experimental works of the interwar period, but the social and psychological novel ( Václav Řezáč, Vladimír Neff, Miloš Václav Kratochvíl ) remained.

DiCaprio continued his run with Scorsese in the 2010 psychological thriller film Shutter Island ( 2010 ), based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.

To achieve this, they rebelled against the traditional psychological novel development.

New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas praised the novel, saying that " Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare ," but concludes that the story's concluding rationalization of its events is " an artistic miscalculation a major flaw in an otherwise superb novel.

Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King.

She then wrote psychological novels, including Aloma which won the Crexells Prize, but even with the success this novel enjoyed, Rodoreda decided to remake and republish it some years later since she was not fully satisfied with this period of her life and her works at that time.

Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness ( 1960 ), Simon Brett's A Shock to the System ( 1984 ), and Stephen Dobyns's The Church of Dead Girls ( 1997 ).

Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase, The Portrait of a Lady is described as a psychological novel, exploring the minds of his characters, and almost a work of social science, exploring the differences between Europeans and Americans, the old and the new worlds.

A commonly anthologised story is The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel The Brothers Karamazov and is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

As the novel progresses, Raskolnikov is introduced to the detective Porfiry, who begins to suspect him for the murder purely on psychological grounds.

It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic.

* Surrender ( novel ), a 2005 psychological thriller by Sonya Hartnett

The rest of the novel acts as a biography and psychological profile, showing his evolution to his current state, and the way he is viewed by others.

) It is usually classified as a psychological novel.

At its publication during the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), the psychological realism of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ( 1963 ) rendered it a revolutionary espionage novel by showing that the intelligence services of both the Eastern and Western nations practiced the same expedient amorality in the name of national security.

American Psycho is a psychological thriller and satirical novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals — depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals ' quest for acceptance — namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room ( 1956 ), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.

The ontological status of society thus is constituted by the psychological status of society's members.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

It is only then that the ancient habits of feeling and the classic orderings of material and psychological experience were abandoned.

There apparently is no school of propaganda or psychological warfare.

In view of the important role which emotional disturbances play in the genesis of neurotic and psychotic disorders and the parallelism observed between autonomic states and psychological behavior in several instances, it is further suggested that a hypothalamic imbalance may play an important role in initiating mental changes.

Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources, human and material, can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted.

It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.

To raise the added objection that men require certainty on psychological grounds, answers to ultimate questions having an irrational rather than scientific basis, is in a real sense to undermine the objection itself.

Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

We hope thereby to emphasize that, from a psychological standpoint, the effectual prevention of illegitimacy is a continuous long-term process involving the socialization of the female from infancy through adolescence.

Far more frequently, overeating is the result of a psychological compulsion.

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

The empathy-altruism hypothesis basically states that psychological altruism does exist and is evoked by the empathic desire to help someone who is suffering.

A related concept in descriptive ethics is psychological egoism, the thesis that humans always act in their own self-interest and that true altruism is impossible.

The content of that psychological status determines, ultimately, the content of civilization.

Every mental phenomenon, every psychological act, has a content, is directed at an object ( the intentional object ).

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

It is believed that the term of " safe sex " was used in the professional literature in 1984, in the content of a paper on the psychological effect that HIV / AIDS may have on homosexual men.

The PHWP includes APA ’ s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards, a variety of APA Practice Organization resources, including PHWP Web content, e-newsletter, podcast and blog, and support of local programs currently implemented by 52 state, provincial and territorial psychological associations as a mechanism for driving grassroots change in local business communities.

* Transportation theory ( psychology ), which concerns psychological immersion in narrative content.

Every mental phenomenon, every psychological act has content, is directed at an object ( the intentional object ).

In The Communist Manifesto ( 1848 ), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels suggest that this allegation is an example of hypocrisy and psychological projection by " bourgeois " critics of communism, who " not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.

Persuasion design is the design of messages by analyzing and evaluating their content, using established psychological research theories and methods.

In an 1894 study, J. J. Jusserand was primarily concerned with what he saw as the poem's psychological and sociopolitical content — as distinct from the aesthetic or literary — in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies.

The keyword here is " content ", scapegoating serves as a psychological relief for a group of people.

Asylum Piece, a collection of short stories which explored the inner mindscape of the psychological explorer, heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing.

The content of the education includes the psychological and physiological aspects of TMS.

Kusama's work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content.

The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: ( 1 ) to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content ( e. g., a tradition's ritual observances ) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct ; ( 2 ) to account in psychological terms for the rise of such phenomena ; and ( 3 ) to clarify the outcomes — the fruits, as William James put it — of these phenomena, for individuals and for the larger society.

Theoretical strategies can involve taking psychological or other theory to define the content domain and then developing test items that should in principle measure the domain of interest.

In other words, the psychological clarification that is taking place at the level of content is reflected stylistically in the movement from a predominantly epistolary mode towards a more linearly organized narrative.

Explanations for this include increased visibility of the sexually explicit content, artistic interest and psychological impact: that is, the genitalia is interpreted as a ' second face ,' expressing the primal passions that the everyday face is obligated by giri to conceal, and is therefore the same size as the head and placed unnaturally close to it by the awkward position.

Only reminiscent, for Mr Lucas has a more profound philosophy, or wisdom, and is not content with the challenge and interplay of the individual, but extends his psychological understanding to classes and nations.

The shock ’ s psychological conflict content determines the location of the appearance of a focus of activity in the brain that can be seen in a CT scan as a set of concentric rings, called " Hamer foci ," which correspond to the location of the disease in the body.

The movie deals with the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of a teenage girl, and included graphic content never before seen on American television at that time.

His psychological initiatives had a large emotional content.

He has also proposed that perceptual and other psychological states are self-reflective so that the content of a perceptual experience might be: this very experience is the result of perceiving a tree with such and such features ( except that the experience is not in language ).