METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYSING ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH LITERARY WORKS
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https://doi.org/10.57033/mijournals-2026-5-0099Keywords:
adolescent psychology, literary psychologism, psychoanalytic approac, inner monologue, stream of consciousness, psychic conflictAbstract
This section examines the theoretical and methodological foundations for
the psychological analysis of adolescent characters in literary works. The study integrates
perspectives from literary criticism and psychology to outline a comprehensive framework
for reading fictional representations of adolescence. The psychoanalytic approach
including Freud’s model of personality structure and defence mechanisms is discussed
alongside Uzbek scholarship on literary psychologism. The principal devices through
which writers render adolescent interiority inner monologue, stream of consciousness,
psychological portrait, psychic conflict, psychological parallelism, and retrospective
narration are analysed in detail. The article also surveys dialogic and reader-response
approaches, drawing on Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony, Holland’s reader-identification
thesis, and Bleich’s subjective criticism. The methodology outlined serves as the analytical
basis for the psychological examination of adolescent characters in the short stories
«Hellados» and «Do’nan.»
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