Galdos and the Unlocking of the Psyche

Gald6s' early conviction about dreaming accords with his acceptance of popularized Romantic psychology. In brief, early nineteenth-century theorists taught that every human being recapitulated, while at the same time contributing to, the larger drama of mankind's spiritual growth and that the motivating impulses in evolution streamed out of the unconscious or primordial to the conscious or developmental level. Like most positivists, Gald6s envisions an immanent human nature which is the well

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