This book is devoted to examining the implicit relationship between De Quincey and the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater from a psychoanalytical point of view, with the hope to understand the latent reasons behind De Quincey's writing. Considering creation as a process of self-interpretation and re-interpretation, this book aims to probe into the internal relationship between the writer De Quincey, and the writing of the Confessions, which centres very much upon dreams. De Quincey's autobiographical Confessions brings us to understand that writing should not merely be considered as a way...