Psychoanalytic theory is that which specifically relates to Freud's theory of mind and his practice of psychoanalysis - the Oedipal complex; the id, ego and superego. The psyche itself it not 'psychoanalytic'. It's separate to reader response theory, but it can be applied with it - so that you would be psychoanalysing the reader's response to the text rather than psychoanalysing the character.
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