Ronald R. Thomas (essay date 1990)


Ronald R. Thomas (essay date 1990)

SOURCE: “Dreams of Authority and the Authority of Dreams,” in Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious, Cornell University Press, 1990, pp. 17–69.

[In the following excerpt, Thomas provides a Freudian interpretation of A Christmas Carol.]

A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke.

—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

The fundamental...

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