Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious ... that his older and more powerful father is also his rival" (270). Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. Collings argues that Victor never fully differentiated from his mother during the mirror/imaginary order of life and therefore was not able to ....

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