Is Alice in Wonderland about sexual fantasies?

Answer 1

No, Alice in Wonderland is not about sexual fantasies. Alice in Wonderland is a book (and several movie adaptations) aimed at children, about a young girl who visits a strange and wondrous land and has adventures there.

The book has been very popular ever since it was written, nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, and has been analysed and interpreted in all sorts of different ways by all sorts of different people ever since.

In the early part of the twentieth century it was fashionable to subject the book to Freudian analysis. Freud is seen as the father of psychoanalysis, and against a backdrop of Victorian oppressiveness, became rather notorious for connecting almost everything to sex and sexual desire.

So Freudian analyses of Alice in Wonderland tend to interpret the book from that perspective, and frequently conclude that the book is in fact an expression of repressed sexual desires.

However, these interpretations are not definitive or absolute by any means, and are no more likely to be accurate than any other interpretation of the book.