ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the wet nurse in literature and biography. The wet nurse can cast a melancholy shadow upon the psyche of the child she has nurtured, especially when she disappears suddenly out of the life of the child when he or she is weaned. At the same time a socially complex picture of the shadow of the wet nurse emerges in literary examples, autobiographies and biographies when considering racial and class differences. The conflict for girls who had been raised by a black wet nurse made the relationship with their mothers complicated in a different way. In 1923 Freud was visited in Vienna by an American psychiatrist called Clarence Oberndorf (1882-1954), who came to him for an analysis. Dicken's literary imagination brings to life the knowledge that an infant requires a constant presence during its early years if it is to flourish. The literary description of an equally loving wet nurse is found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
