Holland analyzes the dream of Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream on a number of different levels and from different points of view, one of which includes the author's personal associations and feelings as they relate to his own life and times, as he hears the dream. This method, with which the author wishes us to become familiar as a new kind of psychoanalytic method with literature, is called "transactive criticism," and it does succeed in further enriching the meaning of the particular dream for us by adding to it both a contemporary and a personal dimension.