A note on Pamela.--Freud and Hamlet again.--The attitude of fiction.--Hawthorne's ""My kinsman, Major Molineux"".--Saint and sinner.--Dostoevsky's The idiot.--The source of guilt and the sense of guilt--Kafka's The trial.--The role of unconscious understanding in Flaubert and Dostoevsky.--L'avventura: a closer look.--The Odyssey : the hidden dreams.--""Sailing to Byzantium""--another voyage, another reading.--Oedipus t king: the two dramas, the two conflicts.--Act one, scene one, of Lear.--Reflections on Pinter's The Birthday party.--Macbeth--drama and dream