Psychoanalysts have analyzed Alice in Wonderland since the early 1900's. Psychoanalysis is," the theory of the talking cure." In other words, it is used to help understand inner (subjective) meaning. Psychoanalysis was first used as a clinical practice to help people suffering from troubles without any organic cause. (Bokay 2) However, it has also proven very effective in uncovering subliminal motives in dreams, art, and literature. The following should not be looked at as definite concepts, but more like a key to help understand some popular interpretations of lewis' text.

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From the house to the wood, there is a second motory transition, Alice running off. Here she meets the caterpillar. He is sitting on a mushroom and smoking out of a hookah. Whether or not these two objects were placed purposely to represent the use of mind-expanding substances shall forever be left unknown. However, the idea of such subliminal messages should not be ruled out. Alice here finds it almost impossible to answer simple questions such as "who are you" and "why?" Here the caterpillar introduces a new growth system to Alice: right hand mushroom-shrink vs. left hand mushroom-grow. From now on Alice uses her growth system a bit more wisely and has wise rebuttals towards characters she comes across. She is slowly growing familiar with the ways of Wonderland.

Humans in general tend to find interest in literature that they themselves posses some sort of relation towards. Alice in Wonderland pertains to all people; it signifies growth. The patterns seen throughout this story had obviously been carefully placed and thought out. Anyone that ties these patterns solely to coincidence should re-read Lewis' text. Lewis Carroll had a message to get across and many believe that it lies within Alice's Wonderland.

To grasp the concepts and to fully understand underlying ideas in wonderland, it helps to think of wonderland as a real world with real rules. Non-law and a non-measure of Alice herself govern wonderland, which in turn results in a large amount of... nonsense. What is isn't, what isn't is, a very hard concept for young Alice to grasp at first. Alice morph's from tall to short, from small to big, and always maintains her psychological and biological age. Her body (the engine) is disconnected from her physical life. (Roncada 4) Her body goes through four phases throughout this trip: 1) and unexpected growth/decrease 2) a growth/ decrease openly driven by the other characters 3) a growth/decrease manipulated by Alice (with bits of mushroom) 4) the spontaneous, self induced growth without the use of any object (during the trial). (Roncada 4) This is the most obvious metaphor suggesting growth seen throughout Alice's trip.

e read both as a passage from the surface to the abyss and as an achievement, a hard conquest from the abyss to the surface, the leaven, the 'engine' of this twofold passage is to be found in the series of events which are written in Alice's body. (Roncada 2)

"That's very important" the king said, turning to the jury, when the white rabbit interrupted: "unimportant, your majesty means of course" he said. "Unimportant, of course, I meant" the king hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, "important-unimportant-important" as if her were trying which word sounded best. (Noth 15)

Finally Alice enters the long desired garden. However she finds this place to be anything but an area of refuge. The characters: an upset gryphon, a melodramatic Mock Turtle, a lesbian Dutchess and a murderous queen, and a ridiculous

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