The use and abuse of psychoanalysis in the study of literature / William J. Griffin -- The language of the pundits / Alfred Kazin -- Literary form and psychic tension / Frederick J. Hoffman -- The Oedipus trilogy / Mark Kanzer -- The theme of the three caskets / Sigmund Freud -- Hawthorne's symbolism and psychoanalysis / Leon Edel -- Thanatos: the death instinct in Dickens' later novels / Leonard F. Manheim -- Saint and sinner -Dostoevsky's Idiot / Simon O. Lesser -- Freud and the poet's eye / Norman N. Holland -- Thomas Mann and psychoanalysis: the turning point / Joyce Crick.