For instance, in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one might argue that Pip secretly goes through some of these concepts unconsciously. Pip's sister, in my opinion, is more like his mother since he doesn't have a mother anymore. Although Pip talks about Joe in the best ways, he always talks about his sister as if she is a bad person because of her attitude. During the first volume when Pip and Joe tell Pip's sister about Pip becoming apprenticed to Joe, she flips out. She "went on a rampage in amore alarming degree than at any previous period. She asked me [Pip] and Joe whether we supposed she was door-mats under out feet, and how we dared to use her so, and what company we graciously thought she was fit for?" (Dickens 97). From this, I could conclude that although Pip's sister did make him mad at times, he secretly yearned for her in a way that a young boy would in Freud's mind when wanting to sexually possess her. This is an example of Oedipus complex because Pip probably wants to kill Joe in order to sexually possess his sister, whom I consider to be his only mother. I feel that Pip probably thought of his sister in a way that any young boy without a mother would. When she starts to show that she isn't going to be walked all over, it drives Pip to a state of insanity in which he feels he can no longer control her in the way that he wishes to unconsciously.
Another example of Freudian terms being used within Romantic works is in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In this work, I realized shortly after reading that Elizabeth and Victor were to be married, former wishes of Victor's deceased mother. Elizabeth ends up helping out Victor's father while he is away studying and making the monster. One letter that Elizabeth writes Victor says "I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William. I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark lashes, and curling hair.
