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“‘That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,’ said the King, rubbing his hands; ‘so now let the jury—’
‘If any one of them can explain it,’ said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him), ‘I'll give him sixpence. I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.’
The jury all wrote down, on their slates, ‘She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it,’ but none of them attempted to explain the paper.”
The strange case of Alice's adventures in Wonderland has attracted the attention of psychoanalysts several times before. Most recently, John Skinner (2) pointed out how some character traits and possibly neurotic features of the author, Lewis Carroll, may have found expression in the strange symbolizations of his early, and to even higher degree, in his later writings.
In her book, “Victoria Through the Looking Glass,”