... sexuality can never be separated from the mother he has lost; as soon as he imagines touching Elizabeth, the figurative substitute for her turns back into her physical form (his dead mother), and then - impossibly - into the all-too-literal and present form of the monster itself whom Victor, immediately after this (dream) passage, sees upon awakening from his dream" (Collings 282). ... Further analyzing the dream, Collings states "clearly the turn from erotic ideal to grotesque body horrifies Victor, and in this respect he is a ... responsible citizen of the symbolic realm, longing for...

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