An essay on an Freudian approach to the Jekyll and Hyde by Robert L. Stevenso

" The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is a much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communication of our sense organs."
--Sigmond Freud (Rieff 32)
In Robert L. Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the reader encounters Dr. Henry Jekyll, a well-known and respected man of London. Like many people, Dr. Jekyll deals with a conscience that is constantly nagging him. Sometimes it wants him to act out, other times it w…