ABSTRACT

This book presents an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Daniel Defoe's major works by confronting various psychoanalytic hypotheses regarding Defoe. It is an original, well-documented, and compelling cross-disciplinary approach to identity issues and creative genius of Defoe.

chapter One|9 pages

The genius of Daniel Defoe

chapter Two|4 pages

The Historical Collections

chapter Three|25 pages

The negative Oedipus complex

chapter Four|11 pages

The thrills of risk-taking

chapter Five|8 pages

Cannibalism

chapter Six|19 pages

The plague: defying Thanatos

chapter Seven|8 pages

The storm

chapter Eight|20 pages

The voyeur

chapter Nine|37 pages

The spy

chapter Ten|10 pages

Coprophilia and creativity

chapter Eleven|11 pages

Captain Singleton: the ablation of Alice Defoe

chapter Twelve|8 pages

The birth traumas of Sheppard, Wild and Defoe

chapter Thirteen|16 pages

The preacher

chapter Fourteen|30 pages

The feminist

chapter Fifteen|14 pages

Crusoe's island

chapter Sixteen|18 pages

Moll Flanders

chapter Seventeen|14 pages

Roxana

chapter Eighteen|19 pages

Apocalypse: The Political History of the Devil

chapter Nineteen|13 pages

Epilogue