Sigmund Freud

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Discussed as Freud's most groundbreaking book, in which the story of Oedipus featured very prominently as Freud used it to articulate his theories about the subconscious and what became the Oedipus complex.

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Mentioned in passing that Freud loved Blackpool so much that memories of paddling in its waters were included in his book on the interpretation of dreams.

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Mentioned as published in 1899, the same year as Heart of Darkness. Cited to illustrate how the idea of repressed anxieties, primal urges, and terrible ghosts buried deep within the civilized self was simmering in the European imagination at the time Conrad was writing.

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Discussed as Freud's last book, in which he theorizes about the connection between Akhenaten and Moses, suggesting Moses was originally an Egyptian Atonist priest who led the Hebrews out of Egypt