Secret Sharing: Reading Conrad Psychoanalytically

A psychoanalytic reading of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" is discussed. The nature of doubleness as the text's "secret" is examined on the basis of a discussion of general approaches in psychoanalytic criticism - the pathology of the author, the pathology of the protagonist, the pathology of the text, the text as a theory of symptom or complex, & the text as an allegory of psychoanalysis. The questions that these paradigms raise about Conrad's story are examined. 8 References. B. Annesser Murray