Download or read book An American Dreamer written by Andrew Gordon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interprets Mailer's fiction in much the same way as Freud analyzed the meaning of dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams. Applies the theories of human development and personality elaborated by such post-Freudians as Otto Fenichel, Melanie Klein and Erik Erikson and considers Mailer's own use in his fiction of the hypotheses of Freud and of Wilhelm Reich.