Freudian texts
The passages below were selected by students of the Theories of the Mind
course in 1996 as possibly suitable for Freudian analysis. The links are
to quotations, summaries, and in most cases notes on a possible analysis.
- Introduction
- Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
from the Awakening and selected Short Stories Penguin; p 189.
- 'Hero and Leander' by
Christopher Marlowe
- Paradise Lost Book I:
The Story of Satan
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway,
Oxford University Press 1992
- "Kubla Khan"
by Samuel Taylor Colebridge (Norton Anthology, Vol 2 p.347)
- Johnny Panic and the Bible
of Dreams: Sylvia Plath
- William Boyd - The New Confessions:
p.11-13
- Night by Anne Bronte (1845)
- Trainspotting - Irvine
Welsh, Minerva 1994
- Repression of Sexual Desire in "Dracula"
- "The Little Girl and
the Wolf", James Thurber, Fables for our Time, in The Thurber Carnival
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965 [1945] p.282-2
- V Woolf, To The Lighthouse,
Wordsworth Classics 1994.
- Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters
1940-56 ( ed. Anne Chambers 1996 Penguin)
- Beowulf 1345-1376
- Kubla Khan. The Oxford
Authors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge_. Oxford University Press, 1985. Page 103.
- James Joyce, The Dead
from Dubliners. (London, Penguin, 1992.)
- The First Two Stanzas of Coleridge's 'Kubla
Kahn'
- The highwayman, Alfred
Noyes 1880
- The Sick Rose (William
Blake, 1794)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness,
Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, pp.107-I08
- Else Laker-Schueler, Chaos
- Dante's Divine Comedy
and the Anxiety of Influence
- Happenstance, Carol Shields
- The Lady of Shalott,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The growing pains of Adrian
Mole, Sue Townsend
