SUMMARY
The main purpose of this paper is to connect Freud's and Forster's ideas, examining the common ground shared by their conceptual development through an ana1ysis of Freudian theory on "Three contributions to the theory of sex" (1905) and Forster's fiction in MAURICE (1913/4); publication (1971). There is no coincidence so far detected in terms of characters and plot; this article, then, suggests the process of se1f-ana1ysis and catharsis as part of Forster's debt to Freud.