• Indian J Psychiatry · Jul 2008

    A study in dualism: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

    • Shubh M Singh and Subho Chakrabarti.
    • Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India.
    • Indian J Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 50 (3): 221-3.

    AbstractR. L. Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a prominent example of Victorian fiction. The names Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with multiple personality disorder. This article seeks to examine the novel from the view point of dualism as a system of philosophy and as a religious framework and also from the view point of Freud's structural theory of the mind.

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