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Item Returns of the Repressed in R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(Department of English, 2011) Acharya, PrakashThis research work studies R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydefrom the psychoanalytical perspectives. It explores the repressed psyche of the character which returns through the means of horror story. The fear about the future becomes repressed in the psyche of the main character Dr. Jekyll. A dual or split personalityshowsthat the same personhasboth good as well as evil qualities which are exposed in different conditions.When people are in normal condition they seem good and gentle, and when they are intoxicated they show their true identity i.e. full of cruelty and irrationality. The major charactersof the novella, Dr. Jekyll has two personalities: Dr. Jekyll ( a good and professional physician) and Mr. Hyde (an evil and murderous character). Drug plays a major role to separatethemfrom good to evil andviceversa. From theFreudianperspective,these two distinct personalities of the same person represent two different aspects of human psyche i.e. conscious and unconscious. Stevenson by describing the split identity of the character portrays the tendency of repressingexcessivedesire inthe contemporary society.Outwardly, theyseemed respectable, but inwardly were immoral and encompassed by dual characters like: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is thepsychic statethat the research focuses on.Item Sexuality: As a Cause of Collision between Humans and Supernatural Forces in Stocker's Dracula(Department of English, 2018) Acharya, Pragati SharmaDracula is often considered as a gothic novel. Its main character, Dracula is undoubtedly a vampire as the prey on living human beings. While considering the novel association with the disruption and transgression the novel bears the undertones of sexual perversion. There are a number of incidents in the novel that show Dracula's vampiric procreation. Dracula's sucking and changing the females with an exchange of bodily fluid reveals that it is a psycho-sexual sucking. Besides it also becomes clear that the act of blood transfusion functions as a verily fundamental sexual displacement. The entire acts of sucking does not limit to the physical hunger, but goes beyond that which is really the actions of sexual perversion. In the same way, the act of sucking relates with heterosexual and the paradigm of reproduction. This new perspective is really a genuine perception to dig out the echoes of sexuality that resound throughout the novel.