Date of Award
1994
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Collins, Robert A.
Abstract
Hysteria was stigmatized by the ancient Egyptians as an exclusively feminine malady and remained so until Sigmund Freud's self-analysis uncovered his own male hysteria. Freud realized that dreams, hysterical symptoms, and even laughter often released sexual expressions which his Victorian society severely repressed. The Victorian author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, probably had some knowledge of these contemporary studies by Freud. Nevertheless, he seemed unaware that his dream-inspired vampire fantasy revealed the "Oedipal complex" he had repressed since childhood. Sexual anxieties inevitably drove Stoker to an embarrassing fit of "hysterics," which he unconsciously projected onto the male characters in Dracula.
Extent
113 p.
Recommended Citation
Musa, Michael Thomas, "Freudian analysis of hysteria in Bram Stoker's "Dracula"" (1994). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 594.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/594
Identifier
FADT14997
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters