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A. The premises and procedures were established by Sigmund Freud. — TRUE
- Psychoanalytic criticism grows directly from Freud’s theories: the unconscious, repression, dreams, wish-fulfilment, and symbolic representation.

B. Freud posited that artists are like neurotic patients. — FALSE (in this form)
- Freud did not simply claim that artists “are” neurotic patients.
He said that artistic creation resembles neurotic symptom formation in that both transform unconscious wishes into symbolic forms.

C. Freud posited that psychoanalysis can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization. — TRUE
- In Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, Freud applied psychoanalysis to religion, society, culture, and civilization.

D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy. — FALSE
- Freud argued the opposite.
Repressed wishes do become fantasies, dreams, symptoms, and symbolic expressions.

E. Literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist. — TRUE
- This is foundational to psychoanalytic criticism:
Art is understood as a symbolic expression of unconscious desires, conflicts, and repressed wishes.

Hence, the correct answer includes statements A, C, and E (4).