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=== The book provides examples of: ===
* [[Based on a Dream]]: Allegedly, the idea for the story came from a fever dream. Many rumors tie the origins of the story to Stevenson's cocaine addiction.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: The popular story is that Stevenson wrote the novel after a particularly vivid nightmare. Even if this isn't true, then the novel's themes of duality and of a man suffering drastic personality shifts and driven to ruin by what is essentially an escalating drug addiction probably rang true with the author, who was not unfamiliar with such situations.
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: Jekyll theorizes that every man may be more than just ''two'' men, each with their own role. Roughly thirty years later, Sigmund Freud publishes the ideas of the [[wikipedia:Sigmund Freud#Id.2C ego.2C and super-ego|id, ego and superego]].
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