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Wuthering Heights And Jane Eyre: Deadly Versus Healing Fantasy In The Lives And Works Of The Brontes, Jeanne Moose
Wuthering Heights And Jane Eyre: Deadly Versus Healing Fantasy In The Lives And Works Of The Brontes, Jeanne Moose
The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research
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Dreams and fantasies provide humans with a means of escape from everyday reality. According to Sigmund Freud, dreams carry one "off into another world" (Strachey, 1900, 7). Their aim is to free us from our everyday life (Burdach, 1838, 499) and to provide us with the opportunity to fantasize about how we would like our lives to be or to imagine our lives as worse than they are so that we can cope with our current situation. Dreams can also serve as wish-fulfillments, or the embodiments of fear (Strachey, …