This work applies psychoanalytic methods to literature, arguing that erotic impulses and the unconscious shape authors' writings. It traces how dreams, infantile love life, repressions, and inherited primal memories surface in theme, symbolism, and character, discusses the Oedipus and sibling complexes, projection, consolation, and genius as unconscious products, and examines sexual symbolism including cannibalistic motifs. Chapters consider how authors' personal emotions inform lyric and narrative texts and offer case studies of Keats, Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lafcadio Hearn, concluding with reflections on integrating psychoanalysis into literary criticism.