The difference between the face value of a bond and its selling price when the bond sells for more than face value. Bonds that give the issuer the right to call and retire the bonds prior to maturity. The face amount of a bond minus any unamortized discount, or plus any unamortized premium.
psychoanalytical criticism. an approach to criticism or a critical technique that applies the principles, theories and practices of psychoanalysis to literature, both in the analysis of the work and of the author.See also Freudianism.n approach to criticism or a critical technique that applies the principles, theories and practices of psychoanalysis to literature, both in the analysis of the work and of the author. See also Freudianism.
Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of reading employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses.espite the importance of the author here, psychoanalytic criticism is similar to New Criticism in not concerning itself with what the author intended.. But what the author never intended (that is, repressed) is sought. The unconscious material has been distorted by the censoring conscious mind.