The author presents material from various novels of Conrad, such as Amy Foster, The Secret Agent, and An Outcast of the Islands, to demonstrate Conrad's unresolved oral fixations and how the vicissitudes of his own life are depicted in his novels. For example, Amy Foster is a narrative depicting Conrad's own expatriation, his marriage to an English girl, and his subsequent fear of dethronement by his son, Bornys. The depiction of a symbolic reunion of mother and child is a frequent theme of Conrad. His writings not only provided an outlet for his active oral cravings but expressed the more subtle aspects of orality as conceptualized in Lewin's oral triad.

In Conrad's personal life, as well as in his fictional world, orality played a