Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Abstract

Literary criticism is of great importance in contemporaneous age. One of the subdivisions of literary criticism is psychological criticism which was founded by Sigmund Schlomo Freud, the father of modern psychology. Psychological criticism attempts to declare excitants, spiritual excitements and effectual factors in creating a literary work based on the work itself and the biography of the poet or author.
Charles Baudelaire the 19th century well-known poet is an introverted, puzzle headed, depressed and heartbroken person who has always been seeking a utopia to soothe in, intending to look for the truth of entity and achieve that ideal world.
In this research, Charles Baudelaire’s poems are investigated to discover the reason of depression puzzlement and disappointment which is observed in his poems according to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.

Keywords

• Charles Baudelaire- Freud- Psychological criticism
• Death