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My research will be focused on how Bram Stoker equips his characters with the knowledge of science known during the victorian (19th) era and how that compares to scientific writing in the Present day (21st) era. (Note: still looking into which literature piece or pieces I want to compare.)
Terms: Psychology: 1. The study or consideration of the soul or spirit. Cf. pneumatology n. 1. Now rare (in later use chiefly in etymologizing contexts). Psychoanalysis: A therapeutic method, originated by Sigmund Freud, for treating mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the patient’s mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind, using techniques such as dream interpretation and free association. Also: a system of psychological theory associated with this method. Reinfield Syndrome: Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield’s syndrome or Renfield syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood. The earliest formal presentation of clinical vampirism to appear in the psychiatric literature, with the psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, was contributed by Richard L. Religion: A state of life bound by religious vows; the condition of belonging to a religious order. Will: Desire, wish, longing; liking, inclination, disposition (to do something). In mod. use coloured by or merged in sense Sources: Régis Olry & Duane E. Haines (2011) Renfield’s Syndrome: A Psychiatric Illness Drawn from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 20:4, 368–371, DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2011.595655 Henderson, D. J. “Exorcism, Possession, and the Dracula Cult: A Synopsis of Object-Relations Psychology.” Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, vol. 40, no. 6, 1976, pp. 603. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/exorcism-possession-dracula-cult-synopsis-object/docview/1298128526/se-2?accountid=14523. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996324#page=77

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