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KMID : 0385320010120020262
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.262 ~ p.269
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Abnormal Psychology of Alice in Wonderland
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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Lewis Carroll is a famous writer of fantasy tales who was born in England. His most famous work is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, which he wrote to entertain Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church. He has been known as an eccentric, withdrawn person who was most comfortable when with little girls, but in reality he had many scandals with women. His original name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and the popular image of Lewis Carroll is very different to Dodgson’s real life, as if Carroll and Dodgson were quite unrelated each other. My intention here is not to expose the dual nature of his life, but explore the hidden meanings and psychopathology in his works. I found that Carroll’s self-concealment of his underlying pathology, sexual longings, pedophilic messages, and infantile need-fear dilemma to the female sex organ, is revealed in Alice in Wonderland. Dodgson was seemingly a quite normal, healthy scholar, but his real life pattern was extremely secretive. Many readers who love Carroll may want to disagree here, because they do not want to destroy their own fantasy and fixed images of Carroll. I do not attempt to interpret any abnormal psychology in Alice, but Carroll’s dream in Wonderland. In my viewpoint, Carroll’s self-deception was very successfully masked by his punning skills and peculiar understanding of children’s interests. His keen observation and close relationships with little girls gave him powerful inspirations. I believe that Carroll stimulates many children’s primitive magical thoughts, unconscious fantasy worlds, repressed inner conflicts and sexual longings. The unconscious reveals a bizarre, grotesque, illogical world, and everybody is forced to repress the fantasy. Many readers of Carroll’s work unwittingly play around with animals in a pre-human talking style. Finally, I conclude that Alice travels symbolically with the animal parts of Carroll, and otherwise Carroll travels into Alice’s inner body.
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KEYWORD
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Alice, Carroll, Abnormal psychology
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