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.
As Celine Surprenant writes, 'Psychoanalytic literary criticism does not constitute a unified field. However, all variants endorse, at least to a certain degree, the idea that literature [...] is fundamentally entwined with the psyche'.he danger is that 'such criticism tends to be reductive, explaining away the ambiguities of works of literature by reference to established psychoanalytic doctrine; and very little of this work retains much influence today'.