The Unconscious

The Unconscious

What is unconscious? Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of applied psychoanalysis, a science concerned with the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes and with the laws of mental functioning. It should not be confused with psychotherapy, which is concerned with treating mental illness and behavioral problems. The reason I am talking about this topic because now I will explain how this topic related with In Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In the story, I noticed that there were times when writer mentioned about an incident where a character was in unconsciousness and dreaming of imaginary things, which can be compared to the psychoanalytic criticism.

In the book, Freud’s directly or indirectly concerned with the nature of the unconscious mind. He had believed that writer wrote out their unconscious thoughts onto paper as a way of coping with the thoughts. I agree with Freud when he talk’s about unconscious mind. Also, I think this topic is very interesting and it’s related to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the part where Mina Harked was not being able to sleep and was dreaming in state of an unconscious mind, which I guess was happening in reality.

In the middle chapter’s I found something exactly like this situation was faced by Lucy, when she was afraid that she would get weak if she fall asleep, which proves that in the novel, many times we noticed the unconscious mind situation of the characters, which shows that somewhere Stoker is closely in relation to this characteristics of mind.