Psychoanalysis and literature

What psychoanalysis and literature have in common, and what psychoanalysis can contribute to literature:
Psychoanalysis is a "talking cure"; language and narrative are fundamental to it. In a sense psychoanalytic therapy is the re-narratization of a person's life.As psychoanalysis deals with language and with interpretation, it introduces a significant approach to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the idea that there are motives and meanings which are disguised by and work through other meanings. The "hermeneutics of suspicion" is not limited to psychoanalytic thought but is found in structural thought generally -- the idea that we look, to understand action, to sub-texts, not pre-texts.Psychoanalysis deals with motives, especially hidden or disguised motives; as such it helps clarify literature on two levels, the level of the writing itself, and the level of character action within the text. A 'companion' level to the level of writing is the level of reading; both reading and writing, as they respond to motives not always available to rational thought, can be illumined by psychoanalytic thought.
Psychoanalysis deals with many basic elements which we might think of as poetic or literary, including metaphor and metonymy; Freud deals with this particularly in his work on the interpretation of dreams, and Lacan sees metaphor and metonymy as fundamental to the workings of the psyche.Psychoanalysis opens the nature of the subject: who it is who is experiencing, what our relationships of meaning and identity are to the psychic and cultural forces which ground so much of our being. This understanding, particularly in terms of Lacan's sense that the subject is ex-centric to itself, is very important in contemporary understandings of reading, meaning, and the relation of literature to culture.Psychoanalysis examines the articulation of our