A Freudian Analysis of the Absent Mother in Dicken's Oliver Twist.

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…the development of a child. To me it seems highly unlikely with all of the misfortunes Oliver has gone throughout in his short life that he would turn out to be a good kid without the presence of his mother. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Click, Phyllis. Caring for School-Age Children. Second edition. International Thomson Publishing Company, Delmar, 1998: pp. 32 Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Bantman Books, 1981: pp 4, 42, 43 Fitch, Stanley. Insights into Child Development. California, CAT, 1997: pp 38, 41, 296