... be at the University. Victor feels as though everything in his life has been destroyed and that leaving home is just another step in the wrong direction. Victor's arrested development is discussed in David Collings" essay, The Monster and the "Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology". David Collings uses Jacques Lacan's concepts of development to describe Victor's deficiency. Jacques Lacan was a French structuralist who ... focused on language and language-related issues. "Lacan treated the unconscious as a language and viewed the dream as a form of discourse" (169). Lacan d...

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