Alice in Wonderland is a classic children's tale written by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. Alice slips into a fantastical dream while on her afternoon nap, where under the guise of childlike imagination, several nuances of psychology and psychiatry can be understood. Alice's primitive identity concept and her lack of logical reasoning, interspersed with certain perceptual disturbances, the irrationality of the primary process of thinking and symbolic representation of existentialist, and absurdist themes are explored through this paper.
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