Dreamy state of desire?

Regarding the psychoanalytical perspective, a distinct moment in Stoker’s Dracula sticks out in my mind as one of the most important moments in which as Foster states, “The ambivalent experience of desiring something that will terrify us [which] can be understood psychoanalytically” (483). This moment appears distinctly in the very beginning of the novel when the captive Jonathan ventures into a closed but not locked room in Dracula’s castle. Literally giving that, “‘Don’t, don’t open that door’” effect that Foster relates to, Jonathan finds himself forcing open the door through which he makes his encounter. Relating back to Freud’s, “theory of repression” which according to Murfin, “goes something like this: much of what lies in the unconscious mind has been put there by consciousness…that it deems unacceptable” (468), Jonathan appears to fall perfectly into this scenario upon encountering the three vampire brides. As Jonathan, “lay quiet, looking out under [his] eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation” (61), images of repressed sexual desire arise within his seemingly dreamlike state of mind. The final line for Jonathan of that evening uses the choice word of, “unconscious” to display his feeling as the “horror overcame [him]” (63), adding to that imagery of the dreamlike state. Further, Stoker's use of words such as, "dim, shadowy and faded away" (63), help to add to this illusion of the dreamy state in which Jonathan himself is seemingly not capable of distinguishing from.