Annotated

The Cambridge Companion to Dracula, by Roger Luckhurst, Cambridge University Press, 2018,

pp. 66–75.

This chapter argues Stoker’s use of Freudian psychoanalysis research and how it was used in the characters of Dracula. Dr. Seward most notably used psychoanalysis of Reinfield to reason and change Reinfield’s insanity. Much of the perspectives in Stoker’s novel is from the 18th century of psychology. The chapter itself brings many ideas about Victorian psychology into the forefront. Also, being published and peer reviewed in the Cambridge Press gives it primary source prestige. I want to dive deeper into how Freud’s research influenced Stoker and what Stoker left out of his novel