The book is a theoretical examination of the concept of the Unconscious with an analysis of
three literary works as an illustration of the views of Freud Lacan and Kristeva. The main
goal is to analyze in detail a central concept in psychoanalysis - in fact one of the four
fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis to quote Lacan - and then see its literary embodiment
in protagonists characters scenes. In other words the book will help the reader to overcome
the difficulties in grasping some psychoanalytic ideas through the use of a very specific form
of language the language of contemporary fiction. Thus language which the Unconscious is and
which it resists will be the prime mover in accessing this ultimately evasive concept.
