Stevenson “case” was written many years before Freud developed his theory of psychoanalysis, Stevenson foresees Freud's method; therefore, influencing his theory (Stiles 895).
Finally, Stevenson had lasting effects on society with his literature. While split identity was established before Stevenson’s novella, no one had explored it with the depth that Stevenson did (Davis 11). Literature focused around split identity was “one of the privileged ways of exploring the mysteries of the modern self, a subjectivity marked less by rationality, order, and coherence than by dream, nightmare, and psychical multiplicity” (Davis 11); this makes the story a gothic novella. With the feel of a gothic tale, and the structure of a case study, Stevenson created a new form of literature that other writers had never seen or heard of before. A case studies, usually boring and impassive, combined with the dark, dream-like horror of a gothic tale makes the novella split, much like the doctor. Frederic Myers's article states brain duality as a possible cause for dual and multiple personalities, but the piece was published several months after Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; therefore, it is probable that Stevenson's novella gave Myers the idea and that the author influences a major psychological breakthrough (Stiles 883). …show more content…
K. Chesterton said, “The real stab of the story is not in the discovery that the one man is two men; but in the discovery that the two men are one man…The point of the story is not that a man can cut himself off from his conscience, but that he cannot” (Ahlquist). Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reveals an incredible details surrounding Dissociative Identity Disorder-a psychological disorder caused by Dr. Jekyll’s repressed cravings. Stevenson’s writing is a psychological breakthrough exposing the dissociation that allows Mr. Hyde to take over Dr.
Finally, Stevenson had lasting effects on society with his literature. While split identity was established before Stevenson’s novella, no one had explored it with the depth that Stevenson did (Davis 11). Literature focused around split identity was “one of the privileged ways of exploring the mysteries of the modern self, a subjectivity marked less by rationality, order, and coherence than by dream, nightmare, and psychical multiplicity” (Davis 11); this makes the story a gothic novella. With the feel of a gothic tale, and the structure of a case study, Stevenson created a new form of literature that other writers had never seen or heard of before. A case studies, usually boring and impassive, combined with the dark, dream-like horror of a gothic tale makes the novella split, much like the doctor. Frederic Myers's article states brain duality as a possible cause for dual and multiple personalities, but the piece was published several months after Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; therefore, it is probable that Stevenson's novella gave Myers the idea and that the author influences a major psychological breakthrough (Stiles 883). …show more content…
K. Chesterton said, “The real stab of the story is not in the discovery that the one man is two men; but in the discovery that the two men are one man…The point of the story is not that a man can cut himself off from his conscience, but that he cannot” (Ahlquist). Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reveals an incredible details surrounding Dissociative Identity Disorder-a psychological disorder caused by Dr. Jekyll’s repressed cravings. Stevenson’s writing is a psychological breakthrough exposing the dissociation that allows Mr. Hyde to take over Dr.