ABSTRACT
In 1981, the novel Red Dragon was published, and since then, a cultural icon called Dr. Hannibal Lecter has attracted broad public attention. Psychoanalysis itself its theory, method, and practice constitutes a crucial topic addressed throughout the Hannibal Lecter tetralogy, and reading the books through the psychoanalytical lens is productive and rewarding for different reasons: The character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a trained psychiatrist with a medical degree, who not only lectures his audience on psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, but who also applies the psychoanalytical method to the characters in the story. The American feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s had a particular share in the critique and renewal of traditional psychoanalysis, as Jane Gallop observes. The Lecter books and movies were criticized especially by feminist scholars, not least due to the depiction of misogynistic murders and the.
