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Williams and Waddell's book echoes Freud's notion that the poets had long since understood the psychic processes that psychoanalysis was trying to lay bare. They explore pre-20th century English literature (both poetry and novels) to show how they yield up, in aesthetic and symbolic forms, a psychoanalytic model of the mind.