A study in dualism: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

R. L. Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a prominent example of Victorian fiction. The names Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with multiple personality disorder. This article seeks to examine the novel from the view point of dualism as a system of philosophy...

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Autores principales: Singh, Shubh M., Chakrabarti, Subho
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
Materias:
Literary Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742237
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.43624
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description R. L. Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a prominent example of Victorian fiction. The names Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with multiple personality disorder. This article seeks to examine the novel from the view point of dualism as a system of philosophy and as a religious framework and also from the view point of Freud's structural theory of the mind.
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spelling pubmed-27383582009-09-08 A study in dualism: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Singh, Shubh M. Chakrabarti, Subho Indian J Psychiatry Literary Psychiatry R. L. Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a prominent example of Victorian fiction. The names Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with multiple personality disorder. This article seeks to examine the novel from the view point of dualism as a system of philosophy and as a religious framework and also from the view point of Freud's structural theory of the mind. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2738358/ /pubmed/19742237 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.43624 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A study in dualism: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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