Unconscious Content: Thomas Hardy said, “No doubt there can be more in a book than the author consciously put there”

In Thomas Hardy’s 1912 Preface to Jude the Obscure, he said “no doubt there can be more in a book than the author consciously put there” (1, p. 4)

Comment: Memory gaps suggest multiple personality trait.

1. Rosemary Sumner. Thomas Hardy: Psychological Novelist. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1981.