Reaction to "Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies"

I think that psychoanalysis is not a very practical way study literature. The author states that “... even if the psychoanalytic reading contradicts existing readings, this does not mean that one is compelled to choose between them. One can also accept both…” (Berg, 87). I would have to strongly disagree with that. Readers may have many different interpretations of a particular literary work, but there is only one right interpretation. The one intended by the author. And the only way to prove the correct interpretation is to provide direct evidence from the text without any assumptions, or at least attempt to. In using psychoanalysis to interpret Hamlet, the author makes really dangerous assumptions. He compares the analysis to interpretation of dreams (there is no evidence that dreams have anything to do with our unconscious.) And claims that there is a direct link between the author and the text “…insights into the mind of the author provide important clues to the meaning of the text” (p. 85). Even thought the author himself admits that this theory is difficult to substantiate, it does not make it any better.
This analysis also lacks structure. The author attempts to apply it to fairy tales. To “The Fisherman and the Jinny”, on page 98 in the first paragraph he parallels child’s deprived feelings to bottled up Jinny. But in the second paragraph the parallel is all of a sudden reversed, fisherman represents the child, and Jinny represents the adult. This analysis is very inconsistent.