Gargoyle Publishers is pleased to present this unorthodox interpretation of the vampire myth and provocative explication of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Vampire, Dracula and Incest transports the reader into the intrapsychic chaos and suffering generated by vampiric sexual abuse and gives one an intimate, poignant feel for the unique therapy required to cure the profound malaise which results when a child is sexually abused by a vampiric predator. This controversial study construes psychic vampirism to be as real as its concrete counterpart. Some unfortunate souls are compelled to suck corporeal blood. Psychic vampires, just as compulsively, engage in a process of energy transfer by which a predator sucks the transempirical Blood, the life-essence, from another, gaining vitality at the expense of the prey.
Incest is a totally separate thing.
The vampire myth is by no means just a metaphor for incest. But sometimes the sexually abusive parent happens to be a psychic vampire. And that, says Lapin, is why Count Dracula's principal victims report experiences unmistakably identical to those of adults sexually abused in their childhood and who find themselves compelled to reenact that abuse in adulthood. Lapin is a depth therapist who listens to Stoker, revealed through his characters, as carefully and caringly as he listens to his own clients. He literally did not walk for his first seven years due to an illness which was never diagnosed, but which, persuades Lapin, is readily understood once we have learned how to listen to Dracula .