Book contents
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Chapter 20 - Sex and Death
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Summary
These days it may seem unnecessary to draw attention to the connection of eroticism with vampirism, and it is very evident in many of the previous tales touched upon. Nevertheless perhaps this type of interpretation has been overdone, as Miller has said, almost as if Psychoanalysis validates Dracula and vice versa (ignoring the fact that both were products of the same cultural era).
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- Dracula for DoctorsMedical Facts and Gothic Fantasies, pp. 169 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019