Sigmund Freud And Repression In Bram Stoker's Dracula

Sigmund Freud was a great mind at its best. A medical genius who is father to one of the most important findings in history: psychoanalysis, and someone whose studies are immensely portrayed in the novel of Bram Stoker’s: Dracula. The novel is about a man named Jonathan Harker, a lawyer, who unknowingly takes a business trip to the devils house in Transylvania where he is held prisoner by his host: Count Dracula. Harker finally escapes his captor but is very ill and ends up resting in the countryside of Hungary. Meanwhile back in England, Harker’s wife’s friend, Lucy, has become pale and very ill, started to sleepwalk. Lucy dies but is later found to be attacking viciously on little children. The people notice that Count is a vampire and he had infected Lucy and plans to harm more people. …show more content…
This great novel by Bram Stoker greatly exemplifies some of Freud’s most famous theories including repression and libido. Repression is the act of subduing or pushing unwanted feelings into the unconscious or subconscious. Libido can be related to the pleasure principle; the act of desiring sexual pleasure without physical harm. Repression is clearly displayed by the character Lucy; who has very lustful desires for herself but they are repressed because in the Victorian age, women were not supposed to have sexual desires. Another repression presented in the novel is again by Lucy; when she is turned into a vampire, her evil is exposed and she is found attacking little kids. Libido comes into play as a pleasure principle that is clearly displayed in Jonathan Harker when he meets the three