Intentional Fallacy - equating the meaning of a poem with the author's intentions.

Anima - feminine aspect - the inner feminine part of the male personality or a man's image of a woman.

Unconscious - the irrational part of the psyche unavailable to a person's consciousness except through dissociated acts or dreams.

(note: definitions below taken from Ann B. Dobie's text, Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism - see General Resources below):

Alterity - "lack of identification with some part of one's personality or one's community, differentness, otherness"

Absurd - a term used to describe existence--a world without inherent meaning or truth.

Dasein - simply, "being there," or "being-in-the world" - Heidegger argued that "what is distinctive about human existence is its Dasein ('givenness&# [..]

Carnival - "For Bakhtin, carnival reflected the 'lived life' of medieval and early modern peoples. In carnival, official authority and high culture were jostled 'from below [..]

(much of this is adapted from Charles Bressler's Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice - see General Resources below):

Aporia (ah-por-EE-ah)- a moment of undecidability; the inherent contradictions found in any text. Derrida, for example, cites the inherent contradictions at work in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's use of [..]

Discourse - [from Wolfreys - see General Resources below] - "defined by Michel Foucault as language practice: that is, language as it is used by various constituencies (the law, medicine, the [..]

Horizons of expectations - a term developed by Hans Robert Jauss to explain how a reader's "expectations" or frame of reference is based on the reader's past experience of [..]

(this list is woefully inadequate; suggestions for additional terms would be appreciated):

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