Sense and Censorship

Abstract

One of the principal objectives of the modern novelist has been to repre sent sexual experience with both physical explicitness and psychological accuracy, and one of the novelist's principal resources in achieving this objective has been psychoanalysis, the seminal tenets of which coincide with the formal and thematic innovations of literary modernism. Indeed, the Freudian subject in many ways became the psychological subject of the modern novel, as prominent novelists increasingly incorporated Freud's theories of repression and fantasy into their narratives, especially in their attempts to capture the degree to which sexual urges and anxieties informed the interior consciousness of their characters and saturated those