Dracula, Dreams and Sex-Freud what have you done? 17/11/2011

So basically, we've been asked to blog on Freudian symbolism in dreams in Chapter 3 in Dracula. Can I just start by saying, I completely don't buy any of Freud's analysis myself. He strikes me as a man who was completely and utterly obsessed with sex but he takes his obsession to the point where literally everything in the ENTIRE WORLD is reducable to sexual objects and actions. This is just absurd/ridiculous/nonsensical/stupid etc. etc.

I guess the key point is, however, that Bram Stoker would undoubtedly have heard about the raving lunatic that was Freud so he may have allowed the theory to influence the way he presented the dream sequences throughout the book and the descriptions that he gives.
Here's a  revision orientated list of things in CHAPTER 3 that may be linked to Freudian symbolism:

• "The castle","the valleys and gorges" (p.37)- female genitalia
• "I behaved much like a rat does in a trap" (p.30)- mechanism of the trap male genitalia
• Compares the Count to a lizard, "just as a lizard moves along a wall", "the Count go out in his lizard fashion"(p.38)- reptiles are, again, male genitalia
• Describes the count climbing down the castle, "thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed" (p.38)- climbing (and I would assume descending)  are Freudian symbols of the act itself.
• Jonathan being trapped in his room, with all the doors (female genitalia) locked, "They were all locked as I had expected" (p.38)- the lack of "key" is made an issue and I reckon a key fits a description of what normal object has to look like to be reduced to male genitalia.
• "passages"- (p.38) female genitalia (again)
• Mountains described as "jagged" (p.39)- fits with the whole 'sharp' thing.
• The journal itself, 'paper'- female genitalia
• The encounter with the two female vampires-"the hard dents of two sharp teeth" (p.42)- penetration, "went down on her knees", "deliberate voluptuousness", "licked her lips"
• Voices of the women described as "musical" (p.41)- musical instruments obviously equal masturbation