A Freudian Interpretation -Victor Frankenstein - In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the main character, Victor, has a short, but important dream right after he brings his creature to life. ... He identifies many symbols of genitals and sexual intercourse. One of the symbols for the phallis is a snake. I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. The existence of this symbol led me to examine the possibility that sexual feelings may have caused this dream. ...

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Nero Gerald Peters Contemporary Theory: Lacan & Freud Final Paper December 21, 1999 A Freudian Interpretation -Victor Frankenstein - In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the main character, Victor, has a short, but important dream right after he brings his creature to life. ... He identifies many symbols of genitals and sexual intercourse. One of the symbols for the phallis is a snake. I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. The existence of this symbol led me to examine the possibility that sexual feelings may have caused this dream. ...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. ... Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. ...

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