Monday, 21 November 2011

Sex and Dreams in Chapter 3 (Baby in a bag) WTF?

Can we just establish, this dude, Sigmund Freud is WEIRD! But interesting.. So I read chapter 3 and found that the chapter is full sexual imagery (PORN) to be precise. Anyway Harker sees Dracula slithering 'lizard like' down the wall of the castle, Harker sees this happen twice, then realises he needs to explore Dracula's castle further he visits other rooms similar to his but notices the rooms are furnished in a better way compared to his, after writing the diary entry he falls asleep and sees a dream.... or does he???? Where three vampire brides visit him by the moonlight, the women look similar to Dracula and cast no shadows, one of the brides approaches Harker with her sharp teeth when the Count arrives they are given a 'baby in a bag' and are gone?
So looking at how Sigmund Freud interpreted dreams, and comparing the symbols etc with what we have read so far through Dracula the entire book seems to be one big sexual fantasy? Hmm, it does sound bizarre and far fetched at first, but can be quite interesting if we look further into the meaning and significance of the symbols. For example; Freud states that castles, mansions, entrances and landscapes represent female genitalia, (hollow objects) then things like teeth and playing/moving objects like sliding, slipping and breaking branches are symbols of masturbating. So putting these together represents a crude image in terms of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, so the stimuli we get when we are sleeping is what makes us dream right? So then this increases when we wake? After all freud says "If such withdrawal was possible to achieve, the sleeper would risk not to wake up again". So is Freud saying we see these dreams naturally in that the stimuli encourage these thoughts in out mind leading us to dream? CONFUSED.COM!
Moving on... Harker's encounter with the vampire women must be the most sexulised parts of the narrative. His response to their approach brings him humiliation and shame that he is uncertain that his experience may have been more than he imagined.

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