Furthermore, many parallels and symbols can be seen in each section, which brilliantly connects them into a cohesive story filled with meaning and dire premonitions of an inevitable future. .

             Throughout this course, we have discussed various novels, from a psychoanalytic point of view, and we have been able to deconstruct many of the characters according to Freud"s psychoanalytic theories. Ironically, in The White Hotel, it is those theories that allow the reader to be misguided, and not realize the important symbolism of Lisa"s symptoms. As Freud does in the novel, we try to analyze Lisa according to her reports during therapy, and her writings to Freud. For example, we can explain why Lisa feels ashamed when having sex and understand her hallucinations of fire; we can explain why she has ambivalent feelings towards her deceased mother, and why she fantasizes having sexual relations with Sigmund Freud"s son. On the other hand, we fail to make the connection between the aching pain in her breast and ovaries, and her death at the end of the novel. I was so captivated by over-analyzing Lisa"s symptoms that I failed to see the symbolisms of her pains, which we now know to be historical pains and hysterical symptoms. .

             In the first and second sections, "Don Giovanni" and "The Gastein Journal", hint and point to the section in the novel entitled "The Sleeping Carriage", where we are first introduced to the reality of Babi Yar and the Holocaust. We also come to an understanding with Lisa"s experiences and fears and the events that lead up to her death. I also will be looking at the parallels that exist between section one, section two and the last section, "The Camp", where reality must be suspended as the novel brings back to life all who died throughout the preceding sections. Lastly, I will explore the unimaginable symbolism between Lisa"s early symptoms and her horrific death in section five, and the concept of premonition.