Chapter 44

Psychoanalysis "has investigated the very aspects of man's nature with which the greatest writers of fiction have been preoccupied: the emotional unconscious or only partly comprehended bases of our behavior". Simon O. Lesser explains that the use of psychoanalysis is very important when examining fiction. He believed that psychology could reach the deepest level of meaning in the greatest fiction. He knows that the human race gets pleasure from understanding, especially when trying to reach great insights while reading fiction