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If we consider literature a pervasive and manifold construct, which is in need of interpretation, and if we consider psychology a knowledge capable of interpreting some aspects of literary works, we can notice that the relationship between psychiatry and literature can be the cooperation between two forces for discovering a world, which has remained hidden and unknown under the shade of the language of literary works. Therefore, the Farsi language scholars have carried out many studies so far on the basis of psychological criticism perspectives. The results show that those performing such research have mainly utilized Freud, Adler, Lakan and especially Yung theories in the criticism of literary works. Although these papers present useful information, most of them suffer deficiencies resulting from insufficient information or carelessness of the authors or their extreme biases. For example, sometimes an author has tried to exercise a bias for a specific literary work and through matching it with positive aspects of a specific theory to appreciate and praise that work. At some other times, an author has tried to find evidence based on an unreasonable certainty in the theory to make him/her able to warrant the disruptive and the unhealthy character of the author and different characters in his/her work.
Sometimes, the author tries to tie two things, which are not related by any means in order to present an innovative writing. Overall, these biases make serious damages to the psychological criticism of Farsi literary works. By investigating the discourses written in this regard in Farsi, this paper investigates in detail the literary-psychological criticism in Iran and presents its weak and strong points.

Keywords: Literary criticism, Psychological criticism, Pathology of criticism

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