In "A Little Place Off the Edgware Road" the writer uses psychoanalytical theory which has the id, ego & superego. From our researches, according to this theory when someone's superego and id are imbalance, he cannot think in a conscious mind.
The main character, Craven has a recurrent nightmare in which all the dead people walked in and out of each other's grave. He goes to the cinema where a man sits next to him and starts talking rubbish. Graham Greene has used the psychoanalytic theory in this story.
In this story, some situations show the elements that suits with psychoanalytic theory. The first one is sexual desire.
‘All the way up the Park, he was reminded of passion, but you needed money for love. All that a poor man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit, a car, a flat somewhere or a good hotel. It needed to be wrapped in cellophane.’
Another example which shows that he has an unstable thinking about life and death is,
"He remembered a dream he had three times woken trembling from: He had been alone in the huge dark cavernous burying ground of all the world. Every grave was connected to another under the ground: the globe was honeycombed for the sake of the dead, and on each occasion of dreaming he had discovered anew the horrifying fact that the body doesn't decay. There are no worms and dissolution. Under the ground the world was littered with masses of dead flesh ready to rise again with their warts and boils and eruptions. He had lain in bed and remembered as "tidings of great joy"- that the body after all was corrupt."
As a conclusion, the writer uses psychoanalytical theory to interpret the character.
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