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...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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