throughout the novel. Heathcliff’s destitute origins cause him to fall subject to oppression and disdain all his life from his early years growing up a gipsy in a predominately white country. Desperate for respect, Heathcliff resorts to ill means which allow him to advance in social class. One of his biggest oppressors, the Linton family, openly shames Heathcliff and expresses hatred toward him directly. When Heathcliff and Catherine get stuck at Thrushcross Grange after Skulker the dog bites Catherine’s
criticism emerges specifically from a therapeutic technique which the Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud developed for the treatment of hysteria and neurosis at the end of the nineteenth century.” The treatment “consists of an interchange of words between a patient and an analyst, the latter draws the patient’s attention to signs of forgotten or repressed memories which perturb his or her speech.” Psychoanalysis uncovers the mysteries of the lost memories of childhood. Repression is described as