Why does Gatsby need Daisy to be something she can never actually be? Why does Victor Frankenstein abandon the very creature he desperately wanted to create? And why can’t Hamlet simply act? The Unconscious Library explores great literature through contemporary psychodynamic psychology, examining the desires, defenses, attachments, conflicts, and repetitions that characters themselves often cannot recognize. You don’t need to have read the book: each episode uses a classic work of literature to investigate a psychological problem that remains just as recognizable today as when the story was written.