I found this really interesting article that you guys might want to check out! The writer talks about the story of Frankenstein through the perspective of Freud, like we had briefly discussed in class. I just thought she had some fascinating points, and the article ties together both the lecture we went to and the book we are reading very well.
I love the idea that the "spark of being" that Frankenstein infuses into "the lifeless thing" might be a masturbatory ejaculation. The passage that the author is referring to is at the beginning of Volume I, chapter IV.
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