A Psychoanalytical Study of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Abstract

This present research work attempts to exhibit the psychoanalytical study of Bram stoker's Dracula. Here the writer is successful in making it a fantastic and marvellous novel. Dracula has many psychoanalytic elements like horror and terror, hypnotism etc. He is seen as a figure of horror and terror, and has been presented as a terrifying creature. Professor van Helsing has a skill of hypnotizing his patients. The prime aim of this work is to present bitter reality of Dracula as a modern figure who survives on blood of others. Dracula, has not only the power of hypnotizing his victims and turning them into vampires, but also has been a lover of his native land. Hypnotizing power, shape-shifting and changing the victims into vampires reveal the development of science and technology in the modern time.