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What are the features of The Turn of the Screw that seem to you to most invite psychoanalytic interpretation? When considering the features of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw that invite a psychoanalytical interpretation it is necessary to establish the nature ....

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.... and his state of mind, however, later critics focussed more on an analysis of the characters. A psychoanalytic interpretation of The Turn of the Screw can bring about many questions. Primarily those concerning the ghosts, the sanity of the governess and the goodness of the children. A psychoanalytic reading of the novel reveals that the governess is a mad sexual hysteric, which, in turn, leads to the ghosts being read as hallucinations or projections of her sexual fears brought about in hysteric fits. This has been proven to be a feasible reading of the text for many reasons, one being that James' sister had been classed as a sexual hysteric. On t ....